Microsoft KB Archive/304214

= COM+ Access Violation When You Create New Activity Under Low Memory Situation =

Article ID: 304214

Article Last Modified on 6/5/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft COM+ 1.0, when used with:
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q304214



SYMPTOMS
In a low memory situation, you may receive an access violation in COM+ with following call stack:

1d41f2d4 6956caf3 COMSVCS!Map<_GUID,IUnknown*,HashGUID,EmptyMapBase>__grow+0x66 1d41f2fc 695371ed COMSVCS!CSafeGuidToInterfaceMap__Add+0xf3 1d41f310 69570adb COMSVCS!CActivity__Create+0x7d 1d41f330 6956d510 COMSVCS!AptReference__AptReference+0x5b 1d41f33c 6956d483 COMSVCS!CAsyncCall__CAsyncCall+0x70 1d41f344 6956dac2 COMSVCS!CAsyncCall__Create+0x43 1d41f350 74a2c3e1 COMSVCS!MTSCreateActivity+0x22 0002bf20 00000000 asp!VariantResolveDispatch+0x7e



CAUSE
This problem occurs because a memory pointer that is returned from memory allocation is not checked against NULL in the internal map code of COM+.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft COM+ Hotfix Rollup 15. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

306417 INFO: Availability of Windows 2000 Post-Service Pack 2 COM+ Hotfix Rollup Package 15

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Additional query words: kbIISCom kbWin2000preSP3COMRollup15Fix AV

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp3fix kbwin2000sp3fix KB304214

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