Below is a long-form, operationally focused feature article about the vulnerability you cited. It summarizes what is known, flags what I could not independently corroborate, cross‑references multiple vendor sources, and gives prioritized, actionable remediation, detection, and incident‑response...
A newly catalogued vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Kernel, tracked as CVE-2025-55236, is a time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that Microsoft warns can allow an authorized local attacker to execute code on an affected host; the vendor’s advisory identifies the flaw as a...
CVE-2025-55226 is a locally exploitable race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated (local) attacker to achieve code execution in kernel context by inducing concurrent access to a shared graphics subsystem resource without proper synchronization. This...
Microsoft’s advisory listing for a DirectX Graphics Kernel race-condition that could permit local elevation of privilege — referenced by the CVE identifier the user provided (CVE-2025-55223) — cannot be located in Microsoft’s public Security Update Guide pages that are accessible without...
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Below is a comprehensive technical brief on CVE-2025-53135 (DirectX Graphics Kernel — elevation of privilege via a race condition). I searched Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and the public vulnerability databases for corroborating information; where vendor-provided details are available I...
CVE-2025-50176 — DirectX Graphics Kernel Type‑Confusion RCE
Author: Security Analysis Desk — August 12, 2025
TL;DR
CVE-2025-50176 is a type‑confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl / DirectX graphics subsystem) that Microsoft categorizes as enabling local...
Hello,
Recently (a week ago) I have changed my motherboard, cpu and ram. At this moment I have the current configuration
Corsair 550W PSU
ASRock H170 Pro 4
Intel Core i5 6500
XFX R9 270X 4GB
2x4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2133MHZ
120GB SSD Kingston V300
1TB WD HDD
After struggling with drivers...
Hello,
Please I am fighting with this problem more than 1 year... I got random freezes (99% just in IDLE time, or when i am just browsing via browser)
My HARDWARE:
CPU: FX-6300@4.2GHz (Default voltage) + Gelid Tranq. v2,
MB: ASUS M5A97 Evo R2.0
SoundCard: Creative Audigy
RAM: 2x4GB Kingston...
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hal.dll
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ram
thread_stuck_in_device_driver
troubleshooting
windows 10
This occurred while i was rendering a 1080p video in Vegas Pro 11.0. The weird thing was the problematic file (dxgkrnl.sys) is nowhere to be found. It has no path whatsoever. This is causing massive fear with it being MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and installing new RAM a-while ago. Here's the DMP file in a...
Hi guys,
I recently purchased a new computer and have had a couple of of BSODs pop up. BlueScreenView counted eight in total. They mostly occur immediately after I press "Shutdown". All open windows close to show the desktop picture without any icons on it (as usually happens during a normal...
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I caught the last BSOD screen that indicated Atikmpag and while poking around with Nirsoft BlueScreenView I see both instances look to be the same and it pointing to dxgkrnl. Both BSOD happen while watching different Youtube videos. My PC is a 3week old HP p7-1154. This PC is replacing my old pc...
i have had lots of crashes due to bsod's regarding dxgkrnl.sys
dxgkrnl.sys version: 6.1.7600.16432
i need a solution to this problem. please help and thank you.