cve patching

Google Chrome on Windows before version 149.0.7827.115 is affected by CVE-2026-12013, a high-severity use-after-free flaw in the browser’s Media component disclosed on June 11, 2026, that could let a remote attacker trigger heap corruption through a crafted HTML page. The short operational...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-42836 on June 9, 2026, as an Important Windows Function Discovery Service elevation-of-privilege flaw in fdwsd.dll that can let a low-privileged, authorized local attacker win a race condition and gain SYSTEM privileges across supported Windows client and server...

Google published CVE-2026-11290 on June 4, 2026, describing a low-severity integer overflow in Chrome’s Android WebView before version 149.0.7827.53 that could let a local attacker trigger a denial of service through a malicious file. That sounds narrow, and in exploit terms it is. But for...

CVE-2026-11007 is a medium-severity Chrome for Android WebView vulnerability, published June 4, 2026 and modified June 8, that affected versions before 149.0.7827.53 and could let a remote attacker leak cross-origin data after compromising the renderer process. The uncomfortable part is not the...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-48583 on June 9, 2026, as a Windows Kernel elevation-of-privilege vulnerability rated Important with a 7.8 CVSS score, allowing an authorized local attacker to raise privileges through a use-after-free flaw in the kernel. That is the plain-English risk: this is not a...

Microsoft published CVE-2026-48573 on June 9, 2026, describing an Important-severity Windows Secure Boot security feature bypass that can be exploited locally by an authorized attacker and is addressed through June security updates for supported Windows client and server releases. The advisory...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-47288 on June 9, 2026, as a critical Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center remote code execution flaw affecting supported and extended-support Windows Server domain controller versions from Server 2012 through Server 2025. The bug is not the worst kind of...

CVE-2026-46122, published by NVD on May 28, 2026 after a kernel.org assignment, fixes an out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel’s Broadcom b43 Wi-Fi driver by rejecting received frames that report an invalid firmware-controlled key index. The bug is narrow, hardware-specific, and still awaiting...

Linux kernel maintainers disclosed CVE-2026-45839 on May 27, 2026, after fixing a BPF CO-RE parsing bug that lets a privileged user with CAP_BPF crash kernels built with vmlinux BTF support. The flaw is not a Windows vulnerability, but it matters to WindowsForum readers because Linux is now a...

Microsoft lists CVE-2026-42825 as a Windows Telephony Service elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Security Update Guide, but the publicly accessible record currently offers little beyond the product area, vulnerability class, and Microsoft’s own confidence framing for how much technical...

CVE-2026-40421 is a Microsoft Word information disclosure vulnerability listed in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide as of May 12, 2026, affecting the Office document-processing stack where a crafted Word file or related content can expose data that should remain unavailable to an attacker. The...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-33834 on May 12, 2026 as a Windows Event Logging Service elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, meaning a successful attacker would not break in remotely from scratch but could potentially turn existing local access into more powerful Windows permissions. The...

Microsoft has assigned CVE-2026-33117 to a security feature bypass vulnerability in the Azure SDK for Java, with the advisory published through the Microsoft Security Response Center’s Security Update Guide on May 12, 2026. The public record is thin, but that is itself the story: this is a...

CVE-2026-43053 is a Linux kernel XFS filesystem vulnerability published on May 1, 2026, and later analyzed by NIST on May 7, involving a crash-recovery flaw during extended-attribute tree cleanup that can leave XFS metadata unreplayable after a local, privileged failure sequence. The bug is not...

CVE-2026-7984 is a newly published Chromium use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome’s ReadingMode component, fixed in Google Chrome 148.0.7778.96 for Linux and 148.0.7778.96/97 for Windows and macOS after disclosure on May 6, 2026, and tracked by Microsoft because Edge inherits Chromium security...

CVE-2026-31670 is the kind of Linux kernel flaw that looks modest on paper but matters because it touches a deceptively ordinary system interface: rfkill, the subsystem that lets Linux manage Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, WWAN, and other radio transmitters. The vulnerability, disclosed through the...

CVE-2026-31622 is not a noisy internet-facing vulnerability, but it is exactly the kind of low-level kernel flaw that deserves attention from Windows, Linux, and mixed-fleet administrators alike. The issue sits in the Linux kernel NFC digital stack, where a malicious NFC peer can reportedly...

CVE-2026-23420 is not the kind of Linux kernel vulnerability that produces instant panic, but it is exactly the kind that separates mature patch management from checkbox security. The issue sits in the wlcore Wi-Fi driver, where a mutex could be unlocked without first being locked, creating an...

Siemens’ latest industrial-security advisory for RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW Secure Access Manager Primary is a reminder that management-plane bugs can be just as consequential as flaws in the field devices they protect. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-27668, carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 and affects...

Microsoft’s CVE-2026-26174 is a Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Elevation of Privilege issue, and the key signal in Microsoft’s confidence metric is that the vendor is publicly acknowledging the vulnerability as real while keeping the low-level mechanics intentionally sparse. That...