InfoQ - Site Reliability Engineering https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Site Reliability Engineering feed OpenAI Fixes 18-Year-Old GNU libunwind Bug by Treating Crash Debugging Like Epidemiology https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/openai-libunwind-core-dumps/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Site+Reliability+Engineering <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/07/openai-libunwind-core-dumps/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1783451097516.jpg"/><p>OpenAI found two unrelated bugs masquerading as one in ChatGPT's data infrastructure. Silent hardware corruption on one Azure host and an 18-year-old race condition in GNU libunwind's setcontext function with a one-instruction vulnerability window. The breakthrough came from switching to population-level crash analysis rather than examining individual core dumps.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> Site Reliability Engineering OpenAI Bugs and Hotfixes Open Source Project Releases Development AI, ML & Data Engineering news Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:15:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/openai-libunwind-core-dumps/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Site+Reliability+Engineering Steef-Jan Wiggers 2026-07-09T10:15:00Z /news/2026/07/openai-libunwind-core-dumps/en