Wow, the bug was a file of ALL NULLS. When executed/used it led to a null...
Wow, the #crowdstrike bug was a file of ALL NULLS. When executed/used it led to a null pointer deref
Two layers of null unsafety.
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Still, this is native code language with no null safety, no memory safety in general. It is entirely safe to assume that the whole application is seething with memory safety bugs and this one got thru. In 1950, people wrote native code with just 0's 1's and machismo. Today there is no excuse.
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