A zero-day vulnerability lurking within the deepest layers of the Windows operating system is the sort of nightmare scenario that keeps IT professionals and security researchers up at night. The recent patch for CVE-2025-49686—a critical flaw identified by Marat Gayanov of Positive Technologies’...
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A steadily rising tide of critical security disclosures continues to shape the landscape for enterprise Windows deployments, and few recent reports have drawn more intense scrutiny than the emergence of CVE-2025-49686. This severe vulnerability, targeting the Windows TCP/IP driver's handling of...