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The Cloudflare Blog·Nov 3, 2021·25 min read63

The tale of a single register value

It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.

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