Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused by Chrome Update(variety.com)

Mysterious Mac Pro Shutdowns Likely Caused by Chrome Update

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/mac-pro-avid-shutdowns-chrome-update-keystone-1203348549/

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“We recently discovered that a Chrome update may have shipped with a bug that damages the file system on MacOS machines,”

My first thought was “if applications can damage file systems, something is wrong with the system (driver buggy or a leaky kernel boundary)”.

Reading https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en, it seems Google is a bit sloppy in the way they formulate this. Their code accidentally overwrote /var on systems with System Integrity Disabled or absent.