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by JonChesterfield 695 days ago
The parser crashing the system on a malformed input file strongly suggests their software stack in general is trash
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Sounds like something a fuzzer likely would have found pretty quickly.
How about a try-catch block? The software reading the definition file should be minimally resilient against malformed input. That's like programming 101.
A badpage fault in a kernel driver doesn't exactly recover from exceptions like that