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All answers to “Name a famous computer bug or named security vulnerability”
Every one of the 95 answers Icillion accepts, A to Z. 23 can be spelled more than one way. Which ones are rare stays a secret.
A
- AEPIC Leakalso ÆPIC Leak
- AMD Barcelona TLB bugalso Barcelona TLB bug
- Ariane 5 flight 501also Ariane 5
- AT&T network crash of 1990also AT&T crash of 1990
B
- Badlock
- BadUSB
- Baron Samedit
- BEAST
- BlueBorne
- BlueKeep
- Boeing 787 49-day bugalso Boeing 787 generator bug
- BREACH
C
- Citrix Bleed
- Cloudbleed
- CRIME
- Cyrix coma bugalso Coma bug
D
- Debian OpenSSL bugalso Debian OpenSSL weak keys
- Dirty COW
- Dirty Pipe
- Downfall
- Drammer
- DROWN
- Drupalgeddon
E
- Effective Power
- EternalBlue
- EternalRomance
- Excel 1900 leap year bug
- Excel 2007 multiplication bugalso Excel 850 times 77.1 bug
F
- Fallout
- Flip Feng Shui
- Follina
- Foreshadowalso L1TF
- FREAK
G
- GHOST
- Ghostcat
- goto failalso Apple goto fail
- Group FaceTime bug
H
- Half-Double
- Heartbleed
- Hertzbleed
I
- Inception
- Intel F00F bugalso F00F
K
- KNOB
- KRACK
L
- Log4Shellalso Log4j
- Logjam
- Looney Tunables
- Lucky Thirteen
M
- Mars Climate Orbiter
- Mars Pathfinder priority inversionalso Mars Pathfinder bug
- Meltdown
N
- NetCAT
- Northeast blackout of 2003 alarm bugalso XA/21 race condition
P
- Patriot missile software erroralso Patriot missile bug
- Pentium FDIV bugalso FDIV bug, Pentium bug
- Ping of Death
- PLATYPUS
- Plundervolt
- POODLE
- PrintNightmare
- ProxyLogon
- ProxyShell
R
- RAMBleed
- regreSSHion
- Retbleed
- RIDL
- Ripple20
- ROBOT
- Rowhammeralso Row hammer
S
- SambaCry
- Shellshockalso Bashdoor
- SigRed
- SMBGhost
- Spectre
- SPOILER
- Spring4Shell
- Stagefright
- Sweet32
- SweynTooth
T
- Terrapin
- Text4Shell
- Therac-25
- Thunderclap
- Thunderspy
- TRRespass
V
- VENOM
W
- Windows 95 49.7 day bugalso 49.7 day bug
X
- XZ Utils backdooralso xz backdoor
Y
- Y2K bugalso Y2K, Millennium bug, Year 2000 problem
- Y2K22 bug
- Year 2038 problemalso Y2K38
Z
- Zenbleed
- Zerologon
- ZombieLoad
- Zune leap year bugalso Zune 30 bug
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