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    CVE-2026-46293: Microchip PolarFire Linux Clock Driver OOB Fix Explained

    CVE-2026-46293 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, added to NVD on June 8, 2026, covering an out-of-bounds access in the Microchip PolarFire SoC fabric clock driver during registration of clock outputs. The bug is not the kind of headline-grabbing flaw that sends Windows desktop...
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    CVE-2026-46291 CAAM HMAC Key Leak: Why Linux Debug Logs Matter

    CVE-2026-46291 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, added to NVD on June 8, 2026, in which the CAAM cryptographic accelerator driver could expose sensitive HMAC key bytes through debug hex dumps when dynamic debugging was enabled. The fix is small, but the lesson is not. This is the...
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    CVE-2026-46307: ath5k Out-of-Bounds Write in Linux Kernel (Memory Safety Case Study)

    CVE-2026-46307 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, added to NVD on June 8, 2026, that fixes an out-of-bounds array write in the ath5k Wi-Fi driver used by older Atheros 5xxx wireless chipsets. The bug is small, the upstream note calls its practical effect negligible, and there is no...
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    CVE-2026-46324 nf_tables RCU list_del_rcu Fix: Linux Firewall Concurrency Risk

    CVE-2026-46324, published by NVD on June 9, 2026, is a newly recorded Linux kernel netfilter/nf_tables vulnerability fixed by changing hook removal paths to use list_del_rcu() when netlink dumpers may still be walking the same lists. The bug is not yet scored by NVD, which means defenders do not...
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    CVE-2026-46287: txgbe RTNL Lock Fix Turns a Teardown Warning Into a CVE

    CVE-2026-46287 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability record, added to NVD on June 8, 2026, for a txgbe Ethernet driver bug that triggers an RTNL assertion warning when the module is removed on systems using copper NICs with an external PHY. The fix is small, almost boring: take the...
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    CVE-2026-46314: Local DoS Infinite Loop in Broadcom V3D Linux Driver

    CVE-2026-46314 is a newly published Linux kernel denial-of-service vulnerability, disclosed through kernel.org and added to NVD on June 8, 2026, that affects the Broadcom V3D DRM graphics driver by allowing a local user to trigger an infinite kernel loop through a malformed ioctl extension...
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    CVE-2026-46301: Linux spi-topcliff-pch DMA Use-After-Free on Unbind

    CVE-2026-46301 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, added to NVD on June 8, 2026, affecting the spi-topcliff-pch driver when it is unbound before its SPI message queue has finished using DMA buffers. The bug is narrow, hardware-specific, and not yet scored by NVD, but it is a useful...
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    CVE-2026-46142 libwx SR-IOV VF Hang: Small Patch, Big Virtualization Lesson

    CVE-2026-46142 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD on May 28, 2026 from kernel.org, affecting the Wangxun libwx Ethernet driver when a virtual function reads a physical-function-only register during initialization and can hang the system. The fix is small, but the...
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    CVE-2026-46167: Linux usblp USB Printer Bug Leaks 1 Byte, One-Line Fix

    CVE-2026-46167 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, dated May 28, 2026 by NVD and sourced from kernel.org, in which the USB printer driver could leak one byte of stale kernel heap memory through the LPGETSTATUS ioctl when queried by local software. The bug is small in the literal...
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    CVE-2026-46138: Linux Bluetooth Kernel Bug Causes OOB Read & Possible Lockup

    CVE-2026-46138 is a Linux kernel Bluetooth vulnerability published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org assigned a CVE to an out-of-bounds read and potential infinite loop in the hci_le_create_big_complete_evt() event handler. The bug is not a Windows vulnerability, but it matters to...
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    CVE-2026-46218: amdgpu Kernel Fix for Bounds Check in AMD Video Decode/Encode

    CVE-2026-46218 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, disclosed by kernel.org on May 28, 2026, in AMD’s amdgpu graphics driver, where UVD, VCE, and VCN video paths could access indirect buffers at fixed offsets without first confirming the buffer was large enough. The fix is small, but...
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    CVE-2026-46129 Btrfs Double-Free Fix: Linux Kernel Patch Needed

    CVE-2026-46129 is a Linux kernel vulnerability published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org reported a Btrfs double-free bug in the create_space_info() error path, where failed sysfs kobject setup can trigger cleanup of the same allocation twice. The flaw is narrow, technical, and...
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    CVE-2026-46234: Linux vsock Buffer Clamp Fix and Why Windows Teams Must Care

    CVE-2026-46234 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD from kernel.org on May 28, 2026, that fixes a vsock buffer-size clamping bug where a misordered minimum and maximum check could let a socket buffer exceed its configured maximum. It is not, at least from the public...
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    CVE-2026-46109 Linux USB ULPI Memory Leak: Patch Discipline Without CVSS Hype

    CVE-2026-46109 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability from kernel.org, added to NVD on May 28, 2026, that fixes a memory leak in the USB ULPI registration path when early error handling fails before device registration completes. The bug is not a headline-grabbing remote-code-execution...
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    CVE-2026-46148: Linux coreQSPI Chip-Select Bug in Microchip SPI Driver

    On May 28, 2026, NVD published CVE-2026-46148 for a Linux kernel fix in the Microchip coreQSPI SPI controller driver, after kernel.org reported that the controller’s built-in chip select could be asserted while Linux was communicating with another SPI device. The bug is narrow...
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    CVE-2026-46200: SPI mpc52xx Teardown-Order Linux Bug—Patch Discipline

    CVE-2026-46200 is a Linux kernel vulnerability published by NVD on May 28, 2026, covering a teardown-ordering bug in the Freescale MPC52xx SPI controller driver where the controller could remain registered while interrupts and GPIO resources were already being disabled or released. That sounds...
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    CVE-2026-46209 Linux DRM/GEM Buffer Bug: Rounding Fix Prevents GPU OOB Access

    CVE-2026-46209 is a Linux kernel graphics vulnerability published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org reported a DRM/GEM framebuffer validation bug that can let an undersized graphics buffer pass checks and later be accessed out of bounds by the GPU. The bug is not in some glamorous remote...
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    CVE-2026-46151 Linux USB Printer Info Leak: Why Printer IDs Can Expose Heap

    CVE-2026-46151 is a Linux kernel information-disclosure flaw published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org reported that the USB printer driver could leak stale heap memory through malformed IEEE 1284 device ID responses. The bug is not a Windows vulnerability, but it belongs squarely in...
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    CVE-2026-46146: ALSA USB Audio Descriptor Bug Can Cause Kernel Endless Loop

    CVE-2026-46146 is a Linux kernel vulnerability published by NVD on May 28, 2026, covering an ALSA USB-audio bug in convert_chmap_v3() where a malformed USB Audio Class 3 descriptor could trigger a potential endless loop during channel-map parsing. The fix is tiny, but the lesson is not: kernel...
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    CVE-2026-46230 AMDGPU VCN3 Bug: Bounds Check Fix and Why GPU Security Matters

    CVE-2026-46230 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD from kernel.org on May 28, 2026, affecting AMDGPU’s VCN3 video decode message parsing path and fixed by adding bounds checks before accessing message metrics in GPU buffer objects. The immediate story is not a...
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