On July 19 the American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike put out a faulty update that shut down IT infrastructure and caused widespread outages across the world, mainly seen through the cancellation of flights but also felt in other industries.
Microsoft has reported that around 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices were impacted, with critical services being significantly affected.
In CrowdStrike's analysis, they say the issue came down to a memory safety issue which was a read out-of-bounds access violation in the CSagent driver.
Microsoft has corroborated this and explains how its Kernel Debugger and other free-to-use extensions were used to find the memory safety issue to be the root cause.
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