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What makes CrowdStrike so ubiquous that their error created such catastrophe? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When an operating system allows a single misbehaving program to take down the whole computer and leave it unbootable. I thought we left that behind with Windows 95.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Drivers usually run in kernel space, where a crash can bring the whole system down. This is not exclusive to Windows

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yes but only in Windows land do you see jillions of (proprietary) drivers made by 3rd parties. Many of which self-update.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This isn't a driver. It's anti-malware. Nobody on Linux puts such software in kernel space (as far as I'm aware). Root service? maybe, but that's still a user-space process.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is a driver though, it runs at kernel level and intercepts system calls for logging, analysis, and potential blocking if malware type patterns are detected in the system calls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nobody on Linux puts such software in kernel space

Falcon Sensor is also being distributed for RHEL and Debian, and it caused issues there too.

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That has been a thing forever. I doubt it will ever go away.