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Source? After some googling, I can only find that this is a 0day in the matrix universe, but not in the real world at the time the scene was made (matrix reloaded is a 2003 movie, vuln was discovered and patched around 2001.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/3dx72y/actual_crc32_exploit_used_in_matrix_reloaded/
https://insecure.org/stf/neiljk.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20617