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Title: New LSASS DoS (CVE-2025-53716) — What admins need to know now
By WindowsForum.com security desk — August 12, 2025
Summary
A null-pointer dereference vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) — tracked as CVE-2025-53716 in Microsoft’s Security Update...