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

[Elias (0xEAB)]

On Saturday, 27 July 2024 at 01:12:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> But with null, I don't have to check, because the hardware does 
> it for free.
>
> The only time a null pointer dereference is an actual problem 
> is when running on a machine that does not have memory 
> protection, which are decades in obsolescence.

Seems not to be exactly true…

<https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/06/wasm-c++.html>: “In 
Wasm a null pointer just refers to memory[0] and it is a legal 
address to read and write from.”