CrowdStrike global outage; is it a memory error?

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There seem to be sparse technical details so far, at least in the circles in which I traffic. However, the initial information about the error suggests that the BSOD message is related to a page fault in a non-paged area. According to microsoft:

The PAGE\_FAULT\_IN\_NONPAGED\_AREA bug check has a value of 0x00000050. This indicates that invalid system memory has been referenced. Typically the memory address is wrong or the memory address is pointing at freed memory

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What are the chances this is the result of a memory error? If so, do you think something of this scale would move the needle on helping hold-outs take memory safety more seriously?