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cve-2025-53766
About this tag
CVE-2025-53766 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's GDI+ graphics component that could enable remote code execution over a network. It was addressed in the August 2025 Patch Tuesday release alongside dozens of other fixes for Windows, Office, Hyper-V, RRAS, and Edge. The vulnerability is considered high-priority due to its potential for exploitation, and administrators are advised to verify patch details directly with Microsoft and apply the August cumulative updates promptly. This tag covers discussion and analysis of CVE-2025-53766 within the context of the broader August 2025 security patch cycle, including its severity, impact, and mitigation steps.
August’s security headlines were dominated by a clutch of high-impact flaws — from archive utilities and consumer networking gear to enterprise-grade management consoles and cloud AI services — that together made rapid triage and patching unavoidable for defenders.
Background
The August 2025...
Microsoft’s August security roll-up arrived with muscle: a broad set of fixes across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, RRAS, and Edge that closes dozens of high‑risk holes — but the tally of affected CVEs, the presence of a publicly disclosed Kerberos issue, and multiple graphics‑parsing remote code...
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday closed a dangerous mix of high‑impact remote code execution (RCE) flaws and a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) vulnerability that together raise the operational urgency for domain controllers, document‑processing servers, and any service...
Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...
cve-2025-50165
cve-2025-53766
cve-2025-53779
exchange server
gdiplus
graphics component
kerberos
patch
patch management
privilege escalation
rce
secure boot
servicing stack
sql server
ssu-lcu
windows 11
windows security
windows server
Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday landed as a heavy-duty maintenance window for Windows environments, with the vendor listing more than a hundred fixes across its product portfolio — including a clutch of high-profile remote code execution (RCE) and elevation-of-privilege flaws that demand...
Microsoft’s own Security Update Guide lists a new vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-53766, described as a heap-based buffer overflow in GDI+ that could allow remote code execution over a network, but independent public records and third‑party databases were not uniformly available at the time of...