The CrowdStrike Windows outage that hit the world this week stems back to an EU-Microsoft deal from 2009 that meant Microsoft had to give antivirus vendors the same Windows API access it had.
That said, their preliminary incident review doesn’t give us much to go on as to what was wrong with the file.
You’re speculating that it was something easy to test for by a third party. It certainly could have been but I would hope it’s a more subtle bug which, as you say, can’t be exhaustively tested for. Source code analysis definitely would have surfaced this bug so either they didn’t bother looking or didn’t bother fixing it.
You’re speculating that it was something easy to test for by a third party.
Based on the data that I have, which is of course very limited! I didn’t know about the recent news regarding the null bytes, thank you for sharing this info.
CrowdStrike have said that was not the problem:
That said, their preliminary incident review doesn’t give us much to go on as to what was wrong with the file.
You’re speculating that it was something easy to test for by a third party. It certainly could have been but I would hope it’s a more subtle bug which, as you say, can’t be exhaustively tested for. Source code analysis definitely would have surfaced this bug so either they didn’t bother looking or didn’t bother fixing it.
Based on the data that I have, which is of course very limited! I didn’t know about the recent news regarding the null bytes, thank you for sharing this info.