Security News > 2021 > January > Windows 10 bug causes a BSOD crash when opening a certain path
A bug in Windows 10 causes the operating system to crash with a Blue Screen of Death simply by opening a certain path in a browser's address bar or using other Windows commands.
Today, we look at the second bug that causes Windows 10 to perform a BSOD crash by merely attempting to open an unusual path.
Opening this path causes a BSOD. A Windows 10 bug first discovered by security researcher Walied Assar, and later publicly disclosed by security researcher Jonas Lykkegaard, causes Windows 10 to crash and display a BSOD when a special path is entered into the Chrome address bar.
Even worse, low privileged Windows users can attempt to connect to the device using this path, making it easy for any program executed on a computer to crash Windows 10.
In our tests, we have confirmed this bug to be present on Windows 10 version 1709 and later.
When the file is downloaded, Windows 10 would try to render the URL file's icon from the problematic path and automatically crash Windows 10.
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