The Linux kernel received a low‑to‑medium severity vulnerability report identified as CVE-2024-0639, a subtle locking bug in the SCTP subsystem that can trigger a kernel deadlock on the per‑net workqueue lock net->sctp.addr_wq_lock, allowing a local attacker to cause a denial‑of‑service (DoS) by...
A subtle but important kernel fix landed in mid‑December: a guarded change to the Radeon DRM driver removes an attempt to progress the wait queue from the dma‑fence “is_signaled” path, eliminating a class of self‑deadlocks that could hang the graphics stack. The patch — tracked as CVE‑2025‑68223...
A recent upstream Linux kernel patch closes CVE-2025-40146, a subtle but practical concurrency bug in the block multi-queue (blk-mq) layer that could deadlock I/O when the sysfs attribute nr_requests is grown; administrators and cloud operators should treat this as an availability‑first risk and...
Notepad++ froze for no reason when saving onto an external HDD.
This happened for the first time ever.
The file was not saved.
How do I get out of this infinite state without needing to restart Notepad++?
Why did this happen in first place?
The same happened more than a year earlier with MsPaint.
I refer to the attachment below here. The image displayed is so my Windows Update. It makes no update. Thus has it locked up, and I find no way to make some updates in Windows Update. Nor do I know what I can do to rectify the deadlock. Someone who can afford?
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Fixes an issue in which a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 stops responding. This issue occurs after you install a third-party program which uses Mount Manager on the computer.
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An update is available for Windows Media Center in Windows 7. This update fixes a deadlock issue that occurs when you use TV tunner in Windows Media Center to watch TV.
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Fixes an issue in which a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 randomly stops responding. This issue involves Fltmgr.sys.
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I discovered a serious problem with "GetSaveFileName" on Windows Vista:
In certain situation the Save-Dialog does not come up and the Application freezes (forever).
This means that the user can not save his data. This is not acceptable!!
Below there is a link where you can download a small demo...