Marcel Waldvogel on Nostr: My understanding of the #CrowdStrike root cause: They pushed out a defective "Channel ...
My understanding of the #CrowdStrike root cause:
They pushed out a defective "Channel file" (some kind of config?) to #FalconSensor customers. This gets uploaded to CrowdStrike's Windows kernel module, which fails to perform correct bounds checking. The resulting #BufferOverflow results in a crash of the kernel module and thus the entire system. Correct?
#BSOD
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