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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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    CVE-2026-46132 Linux Kernel Info Leak: Why Windows Teams Should Patch

    CVE-2026-46132 is a Linux kernel information-disclosure flaw published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org reported that rtnetlink could leak up to 26 bytes of uninitialized kernel stack data per virtual function in certain SR-IOV network interface queries. The bug is not a Windows...
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    CVE-2026-46170 Linux MPTCP Bug: Unenriched Kernel Risk for Windows-Orgs

    CVE-2026-46170 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability from kernel.org, entered into the NVD on May 28, 2026, involving Multipath TCP address retransmission cleanup logic that can mishandle a final socket reference during an ADD_ADDR timer callback. The bug is not a flashy...
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    CVE-2026-46136: mt76 MT7921 Linux Wi‑Fi CLC Underflow Fix and Why It Matters

    Kernel.org assigned CVE-2026-46136 on May 28, 2026, to a Linux kernel mt76 driver flaw in MediaTek’s MT7921 Wi-Fi path, where a country-location-control buffer length underflow can trigger a near-endless loop, bad transmit-power settings, or driver initialization failure. The bug is narrow...
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    CVE-2026-46157 ALSA OSS Audio Race: Why Kernel Compatibility Bugs Still Matter

    Linux kernel maintainers published CVE-2026-46157 on May 28, 2026, after fixing a race in the ALSA PCM OSS compatibility layer where concurrent access to runtime.oss.trigger could corrupt adjacent bit fields and destabilize audio handling. The bug is not a glamorous remote-code-execution...
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    CVE-2026-46225: Linux spi-rspi Teardown Order Fix for Renesas RSPI/QSPI

    CVE-2026-46225, published by NVD on May 28, 2026, is a newly assigned Linux kernel vulnerability in the Renesas RSPI/QSPI SPI controller driver, fixed by changing driver teardown so the SPI controller is deregistered before DMA and other backing resources are released. The vulnerability is still...
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    CVE-2026-46149 Linux Kernel Bug: iSCSI sysfs Over-Read in SCSI target configfs

    CVE-2026-46149 is a newly published Linux kernel flaw, disclosed by kernel.org on May 28, 2026, in the SCSI target configfs code where an overlong iSCSI name can make a sysfs read copy bytes beyond a 256-byte stack buffer. The bug is not a flashy remote-code-execution headline, and that is...
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    CVE-2026-46197: AMD AMDKFD SVM Ioctl Bounds Check Fix for Linux Kernel Security

    CVE-2026-46197 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD on May 28, 2026, in AMD’s amdkfd GPU compute driver, where an unchecked user-controlled SVM attribute count could allow out-of-bounds buffer access before the kernel-side ioctl handler validates the request. The fix...
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    CVE-2026-46158: Linux MPTCP Reference Leak Fix for Socket Timer Cleanup

    CVE-2026-46158 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD from kernel.org on May 28, 2026, covering a reference-count leak in Multipath TCP’s path-manager handling of retransmitted ADD_ADDR messages. The bug is not a headline-grabbing remote-code-execution flaw, and NVD has...
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    CVE-2026-46159: Btrfs Kernel Info Leak via Race in btrfs_ioctl_space_info

    CVE-2026-46159, published by NVD on May 28, 2026 and sourced from kernel.org, is a Linux kernel Btrfs vulnerability in btrfs_ioctl_space_info() where a race condition can cause uninitialized kernel heap memory to be copied to userspace. The bug is not a remote-code-execution headline-grabber...
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    CVE-2026-46168: Linux MPTCP Timestamp Lock Bug Can Cause Kernel Panic

    CVE-2026-46168 is a Linux kernel networking flaw published by NVD on May 28, 2026, after kernel.org reported a Multipath TCP fix for a crash triggered when timestamp socket options were handled under an atomic lock. The bug is not a glamorous remote-code-execution story, and NVD had not assigned...
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    CVE-2026-46172 Linux IPv6 XFRM Leak: Patch Even Without CVSS

    CVE-2026-46172 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability from kernel.org, added to NVD on May 28, 2026, involving an IPv6 XFRM receive path that can leak route destination references when repeated encapsulated packets hit an error route. It is not yet scored by NVD, and that absence is the...
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    CVE-2026-46026: Linux QRTR Name Service Lookup Limit Fix for Local DoS

    CVE-2026-46026 is a Linux kernel flaw published by NVD on May 27, 2026, after kernel.org assigned a vulnerability record to an unbounded lookup path in the QRTR name service code used by Qualcomm IPC Router support. The bug is not a remote Internet panic button, and NVD has not yet assigned CVSS...
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    CVE-2026-46090 ALSA snd-aloop: Local Linux Kernel Race & Use-After-Free Fix

    CVE-2026-46090, published by NVD on May 27, 2026, is a Linux kernel flaw in ALSA’s snd-aloop loopback audio driver where a race during format-change stopping can leave the playback path holding a stale capture-stream pointer. The bug is not a headline-grabbing remote-code-execution story, and...
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    CVE-2026-45934: Btrfs DUP Pending Extent Overlap Causes Transaction Abort (EEXIST)

    CVE-2026-45934 is a Linux kernel Btrfs flaw disclosed by kernel.org and published by NVD on May 27, 2026, in which non-consecutive pending chunk allocations can make DUP chunk allocation overlap device extents and abort a filesystem transaction with EEXIST. The bug is not the sort of...
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    CVE-2026-46015 Linux TCP Bug: Missing Listener Wakeup in SO_REUSEPORT

    CVE-2026-46015 is a Linux kernel TCP bug published by NVD on May 27, 2026, after kernel.org reported a missing listener wakeup during SO_REUSEPORT socket migration in the TCP accept path. The bug is not a flashy remote-code-execution headline, and NVD had not assigned CVSS severity at...
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    CVE-2026-46083: Linux SPI Cleanup Bug Resource Leak and Patch Guidance

    CVE-2026-46083 is a Linux kernel vulnerability published by NVD on May 27, 2026, covering a Serial Peripheral Interface core bug in which failed device registration could skip controller cleanup and leak resources allocated during setup across patched stable branches rather than expose remote...
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    CVE-2026-46019: Linux Atmel AES Driver Memory Leak Fix Explained

    CVE-2026-46019 is a Linux kernel vulnerability published by NVD on May 27, 2026, after kernel.org reported that the Atmel AES crypto driver leaked three of four allocated pages during buffer cleanup because it freed one page with the wrong allocator call. It is not, on the available evidence...
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    CVE-2026-45942 ext4 Race Fix: Prevent Bitmap Inconsistency in Huge-Page Loads

    CVE-2026-45942 is a Linux kernel ext4 vulnerability published by NVD on May 27, 2026, covering a race between folio migration and ext4 bitmap updates that can produce e4b bitmap inconsistency reports during mixed huge-page stress workloads in affected kernels under load. The bug is not a...
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    CVE-2026-46038 QRTR Memory Leak: Fix Linux Kernel BYE Cleanup to Prevent DoS

    CVE-2026-46038 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, received by NVD from kernel.org on May 27, 2026, involving a QRTR name-service memory leak when a node sends a BYE control packet and the kernel fails to free the departed node. It is not a flashy remote-code-execution bug, and NVD...
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