SNA Server Access Violation When Receiving Invalid XID Frames

ID: Q172606

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SNA Server, versions 3.0, 3.0 SP1

SYMPTOMS

SNA Server may encounter access violations or hard-coded break points within Snaservr.exe in an environment where corrupt 802.2 frames are being sent as a result of a bad network card or network card driver. The failures result in a Drwtsn32.log that may show the following type of failures:

Application exception occurred:
App: snalink.DBG (pid=216)
When: 7/22/1997 @ 13:53:4.828
Exception number: 80000003 (hardcoded breakpoint)

In the Windows NT Application log the following event will be logged with the same timestamp as the hard-coded break point:


   Event ID : 686
   Source: DLC Link Service
   Time:14:53:4
   Type: Error
   Category: None
   Description: SNA Server Internal buffer pool error.
      Reason  = Invalid Owner Id
      Module  = D:\sna\system\SNALINK.EXE
      Process = 216
      Pool    = TRUSTED ELTS
      Details = Current Owner Id D8H, Correct ID 1BF801EEH
      EXPLANATION - While processing a buffer pool request, it was noticed
      that the buffer pool had been corrupted.

SNA traces of the failures may show corrupted XID frames or terminate during the processing of an XID.

CAUSE

If an XID is received with an incorrect length field, the SNA Server XID parsing code fails to handle the processing of the frame correctly.

Please refer to the IBM SNA Formats Guide (GA27-3136) for more information on XID formats.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server versions 3.0 and 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This problem was corrected in the latest SNA Server version 3.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining this Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

MORE INFORMATION

With the fix applied, the XID parsing behavior of SNA Server correctly handles XIDs with invalid length fields.

Additional query words: EventID 686 Hardcoded

Keywords : kbnetwork snadlc snaserverservice kbfix3.00.sp2
Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0 SP1
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug