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The cve security tag on WindowsForum.com covers recent Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, with a strong focus on Linux kernel flaws that often do not affect native Windows systems. Recent threads detail issues in ksmbd, USB MIDI gadgets, Realtek and MediaTek Wi-Fi drivers, Bluetooth LE Audio, AMDGPU display and VCE drivers, and a Microsoft Azure OpenAI SSRF vulnerability. Discussions emphasize practical administration, such as updating Linux kernels, understanding mixed-environment impact, and recognizing when vendor-side fixes require no customer action. The tag serves IT professionals and enthusiasts navigating security advisories across Windows, Linux, and cloud platforms.
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    CVE-2025-37903 Linux AMDGPU Dock UAF Does Not Affect Windows

    CVE-2025-37903 is a Linux kernel flaw in AMD’s open-source display driver, not a Windows Radeon driver vulnerability. It affects the amdgpu display code used by Linux systems when HDCP-protected displays are managed through certain USB-C dock and DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport...
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    CVE-2026-64578 Affects Linux ksmbd, Not Windows SMB

    CVE-2026-64578 addresses an out-of-bounds read in Linux’s in-kernel SMB server, ksmbd, when it processes a malformed compound SMB2 request. The practical action is for administrators running ksmbd to move to a kernel containing the upstream fix; Windows clients, Windows Server’s own SMB service...
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    CVE-2026-64584 Affects Linux USB MIDI Gadgets, Not Windows

    CVE-2026-64584 fixes a use-after-free flaw in Linux’s legacy USB MIDI gadget function, f_midi, but its real exposure is far narrower than the CVSS 7.8 rating suggests: the affected system must be configured to act as a USB MIDI device, not merely use a USB MIDI controller or keyboard. The...
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    CVE-2026-63821 Fixes Realtek rtw88 USB Wi-Fi Memory Leak

    CVE-2026-63821 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the USB transport path in the Realtek rtw88 Wi‑Fi driver, with fixes now identified for Linux 6.6.144, 6.12.95, 6.18.38, and 7.1.3. The flaw is a memory leak triggered when the driver cannot submit a USB Request Block, a...
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    CVE-2026-63832: Fix MediaTek MT7925 Wi-Fi in Linux 6.18.38

    CVE-2026-63832 has been published for a flaw in the Linux kernel’s MediaTek mt76 Wi‑Fi driver, with fixes now identified in Linux 6.18.38 and Linux 7.1.3. The issue is most relevant to Linux systems using newer MediaTek MT7925 wireless hardware; it does not apply to Windows’ native Wi‑Fi driver...
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    CVE-2026-63871: Update Linux Bluetooth LE Audio Kernels

    CVE-2026-63871 is a newly published Linux kernel Bluetooth fix for a data race in the ISO socket path, and the immediate task for administrators is to identify Linux systems running Bluetooth LE Audio workloads—not to treat it as a Windows Bluetooth vulnerability. The National Vulnerability...
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    CVE-2026-53375: Update Linux Kernels to Fix AMDGPU VCE Bug

    CVE-2026-53375 has been published for a flaw in the Linux kernel’s AMDGPU VCE driver that could let an incomplete GPU-address update write a bad address into video-encoding firmware. The practical response is straightforward: Linux systems using affected AMDGPU VCE code should move to a kernel...
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    CVE-2026-45499: Microsoft Says Azure OpenAI SSRF EoP Fully Mitigated—What Now?

    On July 2, 2026, Microsoft published CVE-2026-45499, a critical Azure OpenAI elevation-of-privilege vulnerability caused by server-side request forgery, saying the cloud-service flaw had already been fully mitigated and required no customer action. That last clause is the story’s hinge, not its...
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    CVE-2026-53313 AMD Linux Display NULL Dereference Crash: Patch & Lessons

    CVE-2026-53313 was published by NVD on June 26, 2026, for a Linux kernel AMD display driver flaw in dc_dmub_srv error handling, where diagnostic logging can dereference a NULL service pointer and crash systems using affected amdgpu display paths rather than gracefully returning. That sounds...
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    CVE-2026-12011: Chrome WebMIDI Use-After-Free Windows Sandbox Escape Risk

    CVE-2026-12011 is a critical use-after-free flaw in Chrome’s WebMIDI implementation on Windows, disclosed on June 11, 2026, and fixed for desktop users in Chrome 149.0.7827.115 after Google said crafted HTML could help a compromised renderer attempt a sandbox escape. The interesting part is not...
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    CVE-2026-45644: Live Share Canvas EoP Shows Why SDK Security Needs Patch Discipline

    Microsoft has listed CVE-2026-45644 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Live Share Canvas SDK in its June 2026 Security Update Guide, making this a developer-supply-chain security issue rather than a conventional Windows desktop patch emergency. The important word is not...
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    CVE-2026-45482: Path Traversal Auth Bypass in VS Code Copilot Chat

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-45482 on June 9, 2026, as an Important-rated security feature bypass in the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat extension, caused by a path traversal weakness that can let a local unauthorized attacker bypass an authentication-related security feature. The...
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    CVE-2026-45474 Office RCE: Remote Attacker, Local Exploit—What Defenders Need

    Microsoft’s CVE-2026-45474 advisory describes a Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability because the attacker can be remote from the victim, even though the CVSS attack vector is local because exploitation requires malicious code or content to run on the target machine during the...
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    CVE-2026-46157 ALSA OSS Audio Race: Why Kernel Compatibility Bugs Still Matter

    Linux kernel maintainers published CVE-2026-46157 on May 28, 2026, after fixing a race in the ALSA PCM OSS compatibility layer where concurrent access to runtime.oss.trigger could corrupt adjacent bit fields and destabilize audio handling. The bug is not a glamorous remote-code-execution...
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    CVE-2026-46197: AMD AMDKFD SVM Ioctl Bounds Check Fix for Linux Kernel Security

    CVE-2026-46197 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD on May 28, 2026, in AMD’s amdkfd GPU compute driver, where an unchecked user-controlled SVM attribute count could allow out-of-bounds buffer access before the kernel-side ioctl handler validates the request. The fix...
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    CVE-2026-46031 KS8851 Linux Kernel Deadlock Fix: What Embedded Teams Need to Know

    CVE-2026-46031 is a Linux kernel networking flaw published by NVD on May 27, 2026, affecting the Micrel/Kendin KS8851 Ethernet driver, where interrupt handling can re-enter transmit processing and deadlock the kernel under specific timing and configuration conditions. It is not the kind of...
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    CVE-2026-46006 Nouveau Kernel Bug: 32-bit Overflow Risks in DRM Relocations

    CVE-2026-46006 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, disclosed by NVD on May 27, 2026, affecting Nouveau’s DRM graphics driver where a 32-bit integer overflow could undermine a relocation bounds check in push buffer handling. The bug is small enough to fit in a one-line patch, but it...
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    CVE-2026-46069 Fix: Linux mwifiex Wakeup Timer Cleanup Race Explained

    CVE-2026-46069 is a Linux kernel Wi-Fi driver vulnerability, published by NVD on May 27, 2026, in the Marvell mwifiex adapter cleanup path, where a wakeup timer callback can keep running after driver teardown and touch memory that may already have been freed. The bug is small in code but large...
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    CVE-2026-45997: Linux SCSI Cleanup Bug and Why Kernel Storage Fixes Matter

    CVE-2026-45997 is a Linux kernel storage-driver vulnerability published by NVD on May 27, 2026, after kernel.org assigned a CVE to a fixed SCSI disk error path that failed to release a gendisk reference when device registration failed. The bug is not the kind of headline-grabbing...
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    CVE-2026-46037: Linux IPv4 ICMP Extended Echo Reply OOB Lookup Fix Guide

    CVE-2026-46037 is a newly published Linux kernel flaw disclosed by kernel.org and NVD on May 27, 2026, affecting IPv4 ICMP handling where extended echo replies could drive an out-of-range lookup in the kernel’s icmp_pointers table before validation. The bug is small in code and large in...