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Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

Memory in your computer is laid out as one giant array of numbers. We represent these numbers here as hexadecimal, which is base 16 (hexadecimal) because it’s easier to work with… for reasons.

The problem area? The computer tried to read memory address Ox9c (aka 156).

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Zach Vorhies / Google Whistle… & • 11h:

Why is this bad?

This is an invalid region of memory for any program. Any program that tries to read trom this region WILL IMMEDIATELY GET KILLED BY WINDOWS.

That is what you see here with this stack dump.

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Zach Vorhies / Google Whistle… & • 11h:

So why is memory address Ox9c trying to be read from? Well because… programmer error.

It turns out that C++, the language crowdstrike is using, likes to use address OxO as a special value to mean “there’s nothing here”, don’t try to access it or you’ll die.