Microsoft KB Archive/243878

= Windows NT 4.0 Tcpip.sys Hotfixes Dated 4/28/99 to 6/4/99 Replaced =

Article ID: 243878

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q243878



SYMPTOMS
Hotfixes after Service Pack 5 (SP5) dated June 4, 1999, for the Tcpip.sys driver contain a regression that could cause any of the following problems:
 * A socket recv call returns an incorrect number of bytes and the subsequent call hangs.
 * Windows NT stops with a "Stop 0x0000000A" error message.



CAUSE
The Tcpip.sys driver attempts to free the same spinlock twice.



Service pack information
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

152734 How to obtain the latest Windows NT 4.0 service pack



STATUS
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6.Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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