Possible Causes of Triple Faults
Triple faults indicate a problem with the operating system kernel or device drivers. In modern operating systems, a triple fault is typically caused by a buffer overflow or underflow in a device driver which writes over the interrupt descriptor table. When the next interrupt happens, the processor cannot call either the needed interrupt handler or the double fault handler because the descriptors in the IDT are corrupted.
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