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How a software update crashed computers around the globe. ... When CrowdStrike released an update for its software, companies using Windows systems began experiencing errors, leading to the outage
On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
The trouble with the update issued by CrowdStrike and affecting computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system was not a hacking incident or cyberattack, according to CrowdStrike, which apologized and said a fix was on the way. But it wasn't an easy fix. It required “boots on the ground” to remediate, said Gartner analyst Eric Grenier.
Delta's lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court called the faulty software update from CrowdStrike "catastrophic" and said the firm "forced untested and faulty updates to its customers ...
The outage occurred during an update to the company's core IP network that resulted in the deletion of a routing filter on its distribution routers, which caused all possible routes to the internet to pass through the routers, exceeding the capacity of the routers on its core network. 1 day: Network Update: Internal: Full 2022 2021–2023 ...
Delta was the worst-hit airline as it canceled more than 7,000 flights across five days when a flawed CrowdStrike update crashed millions of computers worldwide.
On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a faulty configuration update for its Falcon sensor software running on Windows PCs and servers. A modification to a configuration file which was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused an out-of-bounds memory read [14] in the Windows sensor client that resulted in an invalid page fault.
If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, ... /* * Panic is called on ... {panicstr = s; update (); printf