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		JonChesterfield on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo... The parser crashing the system on a malformed input file strongly suggests their software stack in general is trash

Sohcahtoa82 on July 19, 2024 [–]

Sounds like something a fuzzer likely would have found pretty quickly.

camdenreslink on July 19, 2024 | [–]

How about a try-catch block? The software reading the definition file should be minimally resilient against malformed input. That's like programming 101.

caput770 on July 19, 2024 | | [–]

A badpage fault in a kernel driver doesn't exactly recover from exceptions like that

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