What does NTSTATUS 0xC0020044 (RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE) mean?

 
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RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE

Server-side integer divide-by-zero during RPC dispatch

RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE belongs to the Windows RPC runtime NTSTATUS facility. For RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE, mS-RPCE extends the DCE/RPC model: generated stubs marshal parameters, the runtime binds to an endpoint and protocol sequence, and security or transport failures can be returned as RPC facility status values.

This status is a server execution fault propagated through the RPC call path. It indicates that the remote procedure began executing and hit an integer divide-by-zero exception in server code or code called by the server manager routine.

This is different from a marshaling failure. The client parameters may be the trigger, but the place to debug is the server implementation, generated stub boundary, and any validation that should reject a zero divisor before the calculation.

What to check for RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE

  • Identify the RPC interface UUID, opnum, and server process handling the call.
  • Capture the server exception context or crash dump rather than only the client-side RPC status.
  • Check whether the fault is input-dependent and whether the server validates denominators or counts before arithmetic.

References for RPC_NT_ZERO_DIVIDE


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