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The dos tag on WindowsForum.com covers denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities and the legacy DOS device name restrictions in Windows. Threads discuss CVE-2024-22025 in Node.js fetch, CVE-2025-53020 in Apache HTTP Server, CVE-2025-50077 and CVE-2025-50093 in MySQL, CVE-2024-1441 in libvirt, CVE-2025-15284 in qs, and CVE-2026-2739 in bn.js, all detailing how attackers can cause hangs, crashes, or memory exhaustion. The tag also explains why Windows reserves names like CON, PRN, and AUX from DOS, preventing their use as folder names. Content focuses on patching, mitigation, and understanding these availability risks across software and operating systems.
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    Windows 11 Blocks CON Folder Names as DOS Device Aliases

    Windows 11 still refuses to create a folder named CON, and the reason is not a modern filesystem limitation or a File Explorer bug. It is a compatibility rule inherited from DOS: names that once identified hardware devices remain reserved across ordinary Windows paths, more than four decades...
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    bn.js CVE-2026-2739 DoS: Upgrade to 5.2.3 to prevent maskn(0) hang

    A subtle bug in a core JavaScript big‑number library has turned into a practical availability risk for Node.js applications: calling maskn(0) on a BN instance in versions of bn.js older than 5.2.3 can corrupt the object’s internal state and send commonly used methods such as toString() and...
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    Patch Apache HTTP Server to 2.4.64 to Mitigate CVE-2025-53020 DoS

    The discovery of CVE-2025-53020 — a memory-management bug in Apache HTTP Server’s HTTP/2 implementation that can be turned into a denial‑of‑service by artificially inflating memory usage — is a practical wake-up call for anyone running Apache 2.4.x in production: the defect affects versions...
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    MySQL CVE-2025-50077 DoS: High Privilege Trigger Causes Server Hang

    A denial-of-service weakness in the MySQL Server’s InnoDB/optimizer paths lets a high‑privileged, network‑connected actor repeatedly hang or crash the server process, causing sustained or persistent loss of availability for affected MySQL installations. Background / Overview MySQL remains a...
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    CVE-2025-50093 DoS in MySQL DDL: Patch Now

    Oracle’s July 2025 Critical Patch Update added a new entry to the long list of MySQL security advisories: CVE-2025-50093, a denial-of-service weakness in the MySQL Server’s DDL subsystem that can be triggered by a high‑privilege actor with network access and can cause the server to hang or crash...
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    Preventing Brotli Decompression DoS in Node.js fetch (CVE-2024-22025)

    A newly disclosed vulnerability in Node.js — tracked as CVE-2024-22025 — allows an attacker who controls a URL passed into the built-in fetch() implementation to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by driving the process into resource exhaustion through Brotli decompression. In practical terms...
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    CVE-2024-1441 Libvirt Off-by-One DoS in udevListInterfacesByStatus

    Libvirt has been assigned CVE-2024-1441 for an off-by-one bug in the udevListInterfacesByStatus() function that can be triggered by an unprivileged client to crash the libvirt daemon, producing a denial-of-service condition for virtualization management on affected systems. Background Libvirt is...
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    CVE-2025-15284 DoS in qs Bracket Notation Fixed in 6.14.1

    A newly assigned CVE, CVE-2025-15284, exposes a subtle but impactful logic hole in the popular Node.js query-string parser package qs that allows attackers to bypass configured array-size limits and trigger denial-of-service (DoS) through memory exhaustion when requests use bracket notation...
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    CVE-2025-2915: HDF5 Heap Overflow in H5F_accum_free Triggers DoS

    A heap‑based buffer overflow in the HDF5 library — specifically in the H5F__accum_free function inside src/H5Faccum.c and tracked as CVE‑2025‑2915 — has been publicly disclosed, includes a reproducible proof‑of‑concept and affects HDF5 releases up to and including 1.14.6; the immediate, reliable...
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    MariaDB CVE-2023-52970 DoS: Patch Guide and Mitigation Steps

    MariaDB servers across multiple release lines are vulnerable to a denial‑of‑service crash (CVE‑2023‑52970) when processing certain queries that exercise the Item_direct_view_ref::derived_field_transformer_for_where logic, and operators should treat this as an immediate patching priority...
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    Elasticsearch CVE-2025-68390: Patch Now to Prevent Restore Privilege DoS

    Elasticsearch operators must treat a newly published vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68390, as a near-term priority: the flaw permits an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to trigger excessive memory allocation and a denial-of-service (DoS) via a crafted HTTP request. Elastic...
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    Hitachi Energy Asset Suite Security Advisory: Urgent ICS Patch & Mitigations

    Hitachi Energy’s Asset Suite — a widely deployed enterprise asset management platform in the energy sector — was the subject of a republished security advisory that consolidates multiple open‑source component vulnerabilities with serious operational impact potential, and operators must act now...
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    Hitachi Energy RTU500 Vulnerabilities: OpenLDAP, Expat and libxml2 DoS and Patch Guidance

    Hitachi Energy’s widely deployed RTU500 series has been the subject of a renewed and broad advisory outlining multiple, exploitable parsing and memory-corruption flaws that can trigger Denial‑of‑Service (DoS) conditions and — in at least one case — permit bypass of secure firmware update checks...
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    Urgent Patch for EcoStruxure CVE-2025-8449/8448 DoS and Credential Exposure

    Schneider Electric has published fixes and CISA republished an advisory after coordinated disclosure of two vulnerabilities in EcoStruxure Building Operation / Enterprise Server and associated Workstation components that could enable an authenticated, adjacent‑network attacker to cause a...
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    Siemens UMC Vulnerabilities: Critical RCE and DoS; Patch to 2.15.1.3 Now

    Siemens has published a high‑severity ProductCERT advisory (SSA‑722410) describing multiple remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in its User Management Component (UMC), including a stack‑based buffer overflow that Siemens scores as critical and three separate out‑of‑bounds read issues that can...
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    CVE-2025-48976 DoS in Siemens IEM-OS: No Patch, Migrate to IEM-V

    Siemens’ Industrial Edge Management OS (IEM‑OS) is exposed to a remotely exploitable denial‑of‑service condition tied to the Apache Commons FileUpload library (tracked as CVE‑2025‑48976), and the vendor’s published guidance makes clear that affected IEM‑OS installs — all reported versions — have...
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    Windows 3.0: The GUI Shift That Reshaped PC Computing (1990)

    Windows 3.0’s arrival in 1990 was less a single product launch than a change in the way millions of people thought about personal computing — and yes, the tiny game of Solitaire bundled with it played a surprisingly large role in that cultural shift. Background / Overview Windows 3.0 launched...
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    CVE-2024-21907: Upgrade Newtonsoft.Json to 13.0.1 to prevent DoS

    Newtonsoft.Json versions prior to 13.0.1 contain a well-documented flaw—tracked as CVE-2024-21907—where deeply nested or crafted JSON can force the library into a StackOverflow or resource‑exhaustion condition when parsing or serializing, producing a remote-denial‑of‑service (DoS) vector for...
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    CVE-2025-21207 Cdpsvc DoS: What Admins Must Do Now

    CVE-2025-54114 (Cdpsvc) — What you need to know now Author: Senior Security Writer, WindowsForum.com Date: September 9, 2025 TL;DR — There’s confusion about the CVE number you provided. Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for the Connected Devices Platform Service (Cdpsvc) DoS is widely...
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    CVE-2025-53809: LSASS DoS via Improper Input Validation in Windows

    Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-53809 warns that improper input validation in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) can be abused by an authorized attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) over a network, putting authentication services and domain...
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