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The cve vulnerabilities tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft security bulletins and Linux kernel fixes, with a strong focus on Patch Tuesday releases. Recent threads detail specific CVEs such as SharePoint remote code execution, Office information disclosure, PowerPoint RCE, and Windows Event Logging Service flaws, emphasizing the need for administrators to verify updates across affected products. The tag also includes Linux-specific vulnerabilities in drivers like ath6kl, i915, and AMDGPU, clarifying that these do not affect Windows. Discussions highlight the importance of prioritizing patches, verifying installation, and understanding the scope of each vulnerability, making this tag a practical resource for IT professionals managing security updates.
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    ASUS Router Firmware Update Fixes CVE-2026-93489 Admin Bypass and Two High-Severity Flaws

    If you have a recent ASUS router, there's a security update you shouldn't put off. On October 23, ASUS released a firmware update for routers running its 3.0.0.6_102 firmware series. It fixes three high-severity flaws. The worst one lets someone on a nearby network get administrator control of...
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    Apache HTTP Server 2.4.69 Fixes 20 CVEs, Including Windows-Only Path Bug

    Apache HTTP Server 2.4.69 fixes 20 security bugs, and Apache's own security team didn't rate any of them "important" or "critical." That doesn't mean you can skip the update. Apache's severity labels are its own judgment of how likely real-world exploitation is. Other organisations scored some...
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    Asus Router CVE-2026-14157 and CVE-2026-13313: Patch VPN Import and Telnet Command Flaws

    Asus has patched two router flaws that let someone with access to the web admin interface run commands on the device. One is a critical bug in how the router handles imported VPN client files. The other is a leftover debug function that can switch on Telnet. Both were published as CVEs on...
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    CVE-2026-86296: D-Link DIR-822A DHCP Flaw Has No Patch

    D-Link has warned that its DIR-822A routers are affected by CVE-2026-86296, a maximum-severity vulnerability with public exploit code and no available patch reported as of September 22, 2026, leaving owners needing to restrict network exposure while the company investigates the flaw and its...
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    CVE-2026-76460: Cisco ISE Patches Block Active Exploits

    CISA added Cisco Identity Services Engine vulnerability CVE-2026-76460 and Acronis Backup vulnerability CVE-2026-87886 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 16, putting two very different administrative systems into the same urgent-response queue. One is a network-access...
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    CVE-2026-72529, CVE-2026-72530 Enable TrueConf Server Takeover

    CISA has added CVE-2026-72529 and CVE-2026-72530 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after evidence that attackers are actively exploiting the pair against TrueConf Server. For Windows administrators running the self-hosted video-conferencing platform, this is an incident-response...
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    CVE-2026-42824 SearchLeak Fixes Microsoft 365 Copilot Risk

    Microsoft has fixed several Copilot prompt-injection paths that could have exposed private data, but the August 19 report combines three separate vulnerabilities with different products, attack requirements and remediation dates. The most consequential correction for administrators is that the...
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    CVE-2026-63520: SharePoint RCE Requires July and August Fixes

    Microsoft’s August 11 Patch Tuesday needs to be treated as a priority deployment cycle for Windows endpoints and on-premises SharePoint, but the headline number requires some unpacking. Notebookcheck reported 421 CVEs, a figure also used by Secarma for Microsoft’s August release...
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    CVE-2026-70315 Office Flaw: No Fix Details Yet

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-70315, an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Office, but the advisory’s public record is unusually thin at the point administrators need it most: it identifies neither the affected Office products nor the update packages, builds, attack...
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    CVE-2026-70313: Verify PowerPoint RCE Office Updates

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-70313, a Microsoft PowerPoint remote code execution vulnerability, in the August 11, 2026 Security Update Guide release. Administrators should treat it as an Office patch-management task immediately: updating Windows alone does not establish that the vulnerable...
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    CVE-2026-59137: Patch Windows Event Logging Disclosure Flaw

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-59137, an information-disclosure vulnerability in the Windows Event Logging Service, as part of its August 11, 2026 security release. The immediate administrative action is straightforward: deploy the applicable August Windows security update through the normal...
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    CVE-2026-68199 Fixes Linux ath6kl Wi-Fi Memory Flaw

    Linux kernel maintainers have fixed CVE-2026-68199, an out-of-bounds memory-access flaw in the ath6kl Wi-Fi driver for older Qualcomm Atheros AR600x hardware. Administrators running a Linux system with the ath6kl_core module loaded should move to a kernel that includes the backport: Linux...
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    CVE-2026-68247 Fixes Linux i915 Panel Bounds Check

    CVE-2026-68247 closes a missing bounds check in the Linux kernel’s Intel i915 graphics driver, preventing an invalid panel_type2 value in firmware-supplied display data from being accepted when the driver initializes a second internal display panel. The immediate action is straightforward: Linux...
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    CVE-2026-68110 Changes AMDGPU Kernel Panic to Warning

    CVE-2026-68110 fixes a kernel-crash condition in the Linux AMDGPU driver’s SDMA 4.4.2 path, with patched stable kernels now identified as Linux 6.6.148, 6.12.101, 6.18.42, and 7.1.6. The immediate action for Linux administrators running an affected AMD GPU stack is to take their distribution’s...
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    CVE-2026-68256: Linux AMDGPU Leak Fix, Windows Unaffected

    CVE-2026-68256 fixes a reference-count leak in the Linux AMDGPU display driver when a USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode connection times out during display detection. The immediate action is straightforward for Linux users with AMD graphics: install the kernel update supplied by your distribution once...
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    CVE-2026-50481 Update: Critical 9.9 Entra ID Privilege Escalation, Fixed Service-Side

    Microsoft's CVE-2026-50481 is a Critical, CVSS 9.9 elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID, published under the service's legacy "Azure Active Directory" name. It is a defect in a Microsoft-operated cloud service rather than in software customers install, and Microsoft's own...
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    CVE-2026-56434: Fix NGINX SSI Worker Restart Bug in 1.31.3

    CVE-2026-56434 is a newly disclosed NGINX vulnerability that deserves prompt attention from administrators, but it is not the broad, Internet-wide denial-of-service flaw that a quick reading of generic availability-impact language might suggest. The issue is a configuration-dependent...
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    CVE-2026-42533: Update NGINX to 1.30.4 or 1.31.3

    CVE-2026-42533 is a newly disclosed NGINX heap buffer overflow that turns an otherwise ordinary configuration feature—the map directive with regular-expression matching—into a potentially serious availability and code-execution risk. The flaw is not triggered by every NGINX installation, nor is...
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    Siemens CADRA V2511 Fixes zlib CVEs, but 3 Flaws Remain

    Siemens CADRA users have been handed an unusually urgent but nuanced security update: every CADRA release earlier than V2511 is affected by a group of severe zlib vulnerabilities, while all CADRA versions remain exposed to three additional issues for which Siemens says fixes are not yet...
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    CVE-2026-64036: Fix Linux eBPF Kernel Out-of-Bounds Flaw

    CVE-2026-64036 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability that illustrates a familiar but increasingly important eBPF security lesson: a narrow validation mistake at the boundary between privileged kernel code and programmable observability tooling can create a serious local attack surface...