PoC Code Published for Triggering an Instant BSOD on All Recent Windows Versions

An anonymous reader writes: A Romanian hardware expert has published proof-of-concept code on GitHub that will crash most Windows computers within seconds, even if the computer is in a locked state. The code exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's handling of NTFS filesystem images. The expert's PoC contains a malformed NTFS image that users can take and place it on a USB thumb drive. Inserting this USB thumb drive in a Windows computer crashes the system within seconds, resulting in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

Microsoft refused to fix the issue. The researcher said that because of Windows' auto-play mechanism, the code works without any user interaction, and affects even locked computers when the OS shouldn't be reading data from newly connected devices.