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    CVE-2025-53804: Windows Kernel Driver Info Disclosure—What Admins Must Do

    Note: below is a long-form, technically focused feature article about CVE-2025-53804. I drew on Microsoft’s official entry for this CVE and on Microsoft documentation and guidance about kernel-mode drivers and driver blocklists to explain the risk, likely exploitation paths, detection and...
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    • asr rules cve-2025-53804 driver ioctl driver security endpoint security hvci incident response information disclosure kernel drivers kernel memory local driver exploit local privilege escalation memory integrity msrc patch management patch tuesday threat hunting vulnerable driver blocklist windows defender application control windows kernel
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    Understanding CVE-2025-53147: AFD.sys Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation

    A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — tracked as CVE-2025-53147 — can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate privileges to a higher level on affected Windows systems by forcing the kernel driver to operate on freed memory...
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    • afd.sys cve-2025-53147 cybersecurity deviceiocontrol edr enterprise security forensics incident response ioctl kernel memory kernel vulnerability known exploited vulnerabilities local exploitation microsoft security update guide patch management patch tuesday privilege escalation use-after-free windows winsock
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Meltdown patch from January opened up a vulnerability way worse .

    Total Meltdown? Is my system vulnerable? Only Windows 7 x64 systems patched with the 2018-01 or 2018-02 patches are vulnerable. If your system isn't patched since December 2017 or if it's patched with the 2018-03 2018-03-29 patches or later it will be secure. Reference and further...
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    • 2018 updates exploitation in-process memory kernel memory meltdown memory access memory mapping patch performance process management read/write security software vulnerabilities system security unprivileged access updates user awareness vulnerability windows 7 windows security
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    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Win7 x64 crashing, no bsod or memory dump written

    I have a Win7 install - clean install, about 6-7 months old. Only being used for work purposes (web development) no gaming anything like that. Randomly as far as i can tell, my computer crashes. There's no bluescreen, no error log. The only thing to indicate something happened is that fact that...
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    • backup software crashing critical errors event log hotfix idle issues kernel memory malware memory dump no bsod nvidia performance monitor power supply ssd system recovery system shutdown ups virus protection web development windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 random Application crashes and BSODs

    Hi For the past month or so, i've been using Windows 7, however, about 3 weeks ago, i got a replacement for my PSU (the original one fried some how) and upgraded my graphics card from a 9600GT to a GTX 275. Both upgrades were carried out at the same time. Sadly, after i upgraded, my computer...
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    • aero glass application crashes bsod clean installation computer problems event viewer graphics card hardware upgrade kernel memory mozilla firefox psu replacement ram issues seagate barracuda stop error system specs system stability troubleshooting windows 7 windows explorer
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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