[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 25/07/2024 6:48 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I used to spend /weeks/ trying to find memory corruption bugs. Today 
> it's a few seconds. Seg faults are a great gift!

Right up until they bring down 8.5 million computers world wide, and 
impact almost everyone on the planet.

We got lucky this time, that there is an "easy" fix to get these 
machines working again.

It does not matter that there probably won't be a CVE from this outage.

Fact is, some data was sourced, that was not validated before access 
that could have been caught before a world wide outage that took out 
_hospitals_.