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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by carterschonwald on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:19PM (#41010673)
The strange thing is that when I interviewed there years ago with the team that owns the language that runs in the kernel, they said their ci has 20k or 40k machine os combinations/configurations. Surely some of them were vanilla windows!
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by dboreham on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:49PM (#41011018)
They used synthetic test data in CI that doesn't consist of zeros.
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by dlisboa on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:02PM (#41011190)
Fuzz testing would've saved the day here.
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by azemetre on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:27PM (#41011520)
I’m sure some team had it in their backlog for years.
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by queuebert on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:58PM (#41011821)
That team was probably laid off because they weren't shipping product fast enough.
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by 0x6c6f6c on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:51PM (#41011758)
Oh yeah, FEAT#927261? Would love to see that ticket go out
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Re:The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of nu... by TeMPOraL on Saturday July 20, 2024 @03:55AM (#41014876)
Why not? It's unlikely it was the last null byte in the data file that killed the driver.
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