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Over the past ten days, CrowdStrike and Microsoft have been working hard to assist users affected by a massive Windows Blue Screen of Death issue. The issue was caused by a buggy update to CrowdStrike. In addition to providing a workaround, CrowdStrike has released a preliminary post-incident review of the outage. According to reports, the blue screen of death was caused by a memory safety issue, with CrowdStrike's CSagent driver experiencing an out-of-bounds read access violation.

Summary Microsoft has identified an issue impacting Windows endpoints that are running the CrowdStrike Falcon agent. These endpoints might encounter error messages 0x50 or 0x7E on a blue screen and experience a continual restarting state. We have received reports of successful recovery from some customers attempting multiple restart operations on affected Windows endpoints. We are working with CrowdStrike to provide the most up-to-date information available on this issue. Please check back for updates on this ongoing issue.