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Tailscale Outages Caused by 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug

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Executive summary

Tailscale revealed that a deeply buried 16-year-old bug in SQLite was the root cause of their outages experienced last year.

No verified workaround yet

None of the linked reports describe a mitigation. Follow this incident to hear when one appears.

Technical root cause

A deeply buried 16-year-old bug within SQLite.

Evidence

1 report · 1 HNShow
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Timeline

  1. First report on Hacker News thread

    Tailscale says deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's outages

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