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

[Walter Bright]

On 7/25/2024 2:04 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> It doesn't solve the underlying issue, I acknowledge that, but it would force 
> the question on validation which obviously wasn't being asked.

The hardware will not only check for null pointer accesses, but check for *any* 
pointer that points to an address that is not mapped to the process.