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Or should one first look at the drivers involved (e.g. OpenGL drivers in a game) or the X server, or a kernel bug?
The example case is simple, two threads may be writing the same variable at the same time. Can that trigger such a massive lock up?
Of a decent operating system, definitely not. Any threading issues should be isolated to the current process only.
Assuming that process itself isn’t inherently dangerous (elevated privileges, kernel mode code and so forth), it should not be able to bring the OS itself down.