Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is history
The explanation opens by detailing that CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor ships with"sensor content" that steers and defines its threat-detection engine's capabilities. The software is also updated with"rapid response content" that allows it to detect and handle emerging malware and other unwanted system activity.
Next, each of these template instances maps to specific system behaviors for the sensor software to observe, detect or prevent. Three more IPC template instances were deployed between April 8 and April 24. All ran without crashing 8.5 million Windows machines – although, as weOn July 19, CrowdStrike introduced two more IPC template instances. One included"problematic content data," but made it into production anyway, because of what CrowdStrike described as"a bug in the content validator."
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