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the crowdstrike situation is wild

Low Level

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

351K views2 years ago3 recommendations

Systems programmingSecurityOperating systemsDebuggingWeb and application security

Low Level Learning explains the technical details behind the Crowdstrike global outage, focusing on the corrupted kernel driver file.

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What people say. Recommended as a quick and accessible technical breakdown of the Crowdstrike null pointer dereference bug.

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u/Jumbledcodein r/C_Programming • Recommends

On “The issue of BSOD caused by crowdstrike was due to null pointer derefrence”

This video goes into a bit of the detail if you're interested link to this video

u/jutastrein r/C_Programming • Recommends

On “Any good technical explanations of the Crowdstrike bug?”

Check this out link to this video

u/natufianin r/C_Programming • Recommends

On “Any good technical explanations of the Crowdstrike bug?”

Not his specific area of expertise, so it's possible there are some intracacies he misses, but Low Level Learning is a hella smart guy and has does a good (albeit, short) treatment.

u/danpietschin r/C_Programming • Mentions

On “The issue of BSOD caused by crowdstrike was due to null pointer derefrence”

According to the Low Level Learning channel on youtube, an entire .SYS file inside of the update was corrupted and ***the entire file appears to be zeros***. link to this video
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