What does BSOD 71 (REF_UNKNOWN_LOGON_SESSION) mean?

 

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DEREF_UNKNOWN_LOGON_SESSION CANCEL_STATE_IN_COMPLETED_IRP

REF_UNKNOWN_LOGON_SESSION

Unknown logon-session reference

REF_UNKNOWN_LOGON_SESSION is bug check code 0x00000047. This is the reference-side partner of DEREF_UNKNOWN_LOGON_SESSION. It indicates that the kernel attempted to acquire a reference on a logon-session object that was not valid in the current security bookkeeping.

How to read it in a dump

  • Check whether the crash occurred during logon, logout, token creation, impersonation, or audit processing.
  • The relevant evidence is the token/logon-session object, not the user name alone.
  • A stale pointer or object lifetime bug can present as an unknown session.

What to check

  • Review security and authentication filters, EDR/AV products, and token-manipulation code.
  • Compare reference and dereference crashes if both occur.
  • Look for pool corruption around security objects.

References

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Current version of service supports following types of error and status codes:

NTSTATUSMany kernel-mode standard driver routines and driver support routines use the NTSTATUS type for return values. Additionally, drivers provide an NTSTATUS-typed value in an IRP’s IO_STATUS_BLOCK structure when completing IRPs. The NTSTATUS type is defined in Ntdef.h, and system-supplied status codes are defined in Ntstatus.h.
Win32 errorWin32 error codes MUST be in the range 0x0000 to 0xFFFF, although Win32 error codes can be used both in 16-bit fields (such as within the HRESULT type specified in section in this article) as well as 32-bit fields. Most values also have a default message defined, which can be used to map the value to a human-readable text message; when this is done, the Win32 error code is also known as a message identifier.
HRESULTHRESULT is a data type used in Windows operating systems, and the earlier IBM/Microsoft OS/2 operating system, to represent error conditions, and warning conditions.
The original purpose of HRESULTs was to formally lay out ranges of error codes for both public and Microsoft internal use in order to prevent collisions between error codes in different subsystems of the OS/2 operating system.
HRESULTs are numerical error codes. Various bits within an HRESULT encode information about the nature of the error code, and where it came from.
HRESULT error codes are most commonly encountered in COM programming, where they form the basis for a standardized COM error handling convention.
HTTP Status CodeHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response status codes. Status codes are issued by a server in response to a client’s request made to the server. It includes codes from IETF Request for Comments (RFCs), other specifications, and some additional codes used in some common applications of the HTTP. The first digit of the status code specifies one of five standard classes of responses. The message phrases shown are typical, but any human-readable alternative may be provided.
errnoInteger value, which is returned by system calls and some library functions in the event of an error to indicate what went wrong. errno is defined by the ISO C standard to be a modifiable lvalue of type int, and must not be explicitly declared; errno may be a macro. errno is thread-local; setting it in one thread does not affect its value in any other thread.
Kern ReturnApple Kernel return codes.
Ipp StatusThe IppStatus constant enumerates the status values returned by the Intel IPP functions, indicating
whether the operation is error-free.

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