However improbable: The story of a processor bug
January 18, 2018 12:06PM
Processor problems have been in the news lately, due to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. But generally, engineers writing software assume that computer hardware operates in a reliable, well-understood fashion, and that any problems lie on the software side of the software-hardware divide....
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An Explanation of the Meltdown/Spectre Bugs for a Non-Technical Audience
January 08, 2018 6:57PM
Bugs
Security
Vulnerabilities
Last week the news of two significant computer bugs was announced. They've been dubbed Meltdown and Spectre and they take advantage of very technical systems that modern CPUs have implemented to make computers extremely fast....
Quantifying the Impact of "Cloudbleed"
March 01, 2017 3:27PM
Bugs
Post Mortem
Privacy
Security
Last Thursday we released details on a bug in Cloudflare's parser impacting our customers. It was an extremely serious bug that caused data flowing through Cloudflare's network to be leaked onto the Internet....
Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug
February 23, 2017 11:01PM
Post Mortem
Security
Privacy
Bugs
Last Friday, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero contacted Cloudflare to report a security problem with our edge servers. He was seeing corrupted web pages being returned by some HTTP requests run through Cloudflare....
How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
January 01, 2017 10:40PM
DNS
Post Mortem
RRDNS
Bugs
Reliability
At midnight UTC on New Year’s Day, deep inside Cloudflare’s custom RRDNS software, a number went negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero. A little later this negative value caused RRDNS to panic....