Decades-old SQLite flaw exposed why infrastructure bugs hide in plain sight
Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
Tailscale's year-long outages traced back to a 16-year-old SQLite WAL-Reset bug reveals how foundational open-source components can harbor critical flaws for years without detection—even when heavily deployed in production systems. The company had to build new diagnostic tooling just to surface the problem. Popular libraries are often treated as stable black boxes rather than actively monitored attack surfaces, creating compounding risk as the connected infrastructure layer becomes more critical.