Icon View Incident Report

Serious Serious
Reported By: Rob Grundy
Reported On: 12/3/2012
For: Version 4.34 Build 4
# 3686 DBISAM Database Server Can Experience AV or Invalid Pointer Operation When Terminating Session

We're seeing the following error in our server logs:

03/12/2012 14:33:12 [ERROR] Internal error removing session [Invalid pointer operation] [Client Version: 0.00 User Name: XXXXXX Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Encrypted: No Thread: 34100 Session: 3]


Comments Comments
Much thanks to Rob for diligently helping us track this one down. This issue has been present since the re-architecting of the DBISAM Database Server for 64-bit compilation, but hasn't been reproducible until now. The problem was caused by SELECT..INTO queries that opened databases in a way that tripped up the database handle tracking in the outer server portion of the DBISAM Database Server. The end result would be an invalid database object reference left dangling in the server that the server would try to free, only to encounter an AV or invalid pointer operation error when doing so.


Resolution Resolution
Fixed Problem on 12/11/2012 in version 4.34 build 5


Products Affected Products Affected
DBISAM Additional Software and Utilities
DBISAM ODBC Client-Server
DBISAM ODBC Client-Server with Source
DBISAM ODBC Standard
DBISAM ODBC Standard with Source
DBISAM ODBC Trial
DBISAM VCL Client-Server
DBISAM VCL Client-Server with Source
DBISAM VCL Standard
DBISAM VCL Standard with Source
DBISAM VCL Trial

Image