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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...

PHP’s core image helper has a subtle but consequential flaw: CVE‑2025‑14177 is an information‑disclosure bug in the getimagesize implementation that can cause uninitialized heap bytes to be copied into JPEG APPn metadata (for example APP1), leaking fragments of process memory when images are...

A new Linux-kernel vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54082 has been recorded and fixed upstream: a null-pointer / use-after-free race in the AF_UNIX send path rooted in unix_stream_sendpage. The flaw can be triggered by a carefully orchestrated sequence of local socket/file-descriptor passing...

A kernel-level Bluetooth defect identified as CVE-2025-38473 is a null-pointer dereference in l2cap_sock_resume_cb that was reported by automated testing (syzbot) and patched upstream by adding a defensive check to avoid accessing a socket that has already been killed; operators should treat...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists a vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-64677 described as an Office “Out‑of‑Box Experience” (OoBE) spoofing issue — a presentation‑layer flaw that can be used to impersonate setup or first‑run UI elements and coerce users into granting access, consenting...

The QEMU SR-IOV implementation contains a subtle but meaningful bug: hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c in QEMU through 10.0.3 mishandles the VF Enable bit write mask, a logic error tracked as CVE-2025-54567 that can lead to incorrect registration/unregistration of virtual functions (VFs) and inconsistent...

A heap-based buffer overflow has been reported in HDF5 v1.14.6: the function H5O__mtime_new_encode in src/H5Omtime.c can be manipulated to write past an allocated heap buffer (CVE‑2025‑6750), a defect tracked publicly with a working proof‑of‑concept and tracked by distribution vendors and...

A newly disclosed command-injection flaw in Windows PowerShell can allow specially crafted web content to cause unintended code execution when fetched with common cmdlets such as Invoke-WebRequest, prompting urgent remediation and an immediate re-evaluation of PowerShell automation in production...

CVE-2025-64679 — Windows DWM Core Library: what we know, why it matters, and what to do now Summary — in one line CVE-2025-64679 is a vendor‑recorded heap‑based buffer‑overflow in the Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) core library that can be abused by a local, authorized actor to escalate...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-62565 confirms a use‑after‑free bug in the Windows Shell (File Explorer) that can be triggered by an authorized local user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM; the vendor has recorded the issue in its Security Update Guide and independent trackers currently rate it...

A Microsoft-tracked report identified as CVE-2025-62461 has been linked in some discussion threads to a Windows “Projected File System” (ProjFS) elevation-of-privilege issue, but exhaustive checks of vendor feeds and public vulnerability trackers show no authoritative technical advisory or KB...

Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-62573 identifies a use‑after‑free bug in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that can be abused by an authenticated local user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM, and administrators should treat the issue as a high‑impact kernel elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) risk...

Microsoft’s security trackers and independent aggregators have recorded CVE-2025-62571 as a high‑severity Windows Installer elevation of privilege vulnerability that permits a local, authorized attacker to gain higher privileges by exploiting improper input validation in the Windows Installer...

A newly disclosed vulnerability in the containerd CRI server — tracked as CVE-2025-64329 — allows repeated use of the CRI Attach feature to leak goroutines and steadily increase the containerd process’s memory footprint until the host’s memory is exhausted. The issue, reported to the containerd...

A null-pointer dereference in libssh’s key-exchange (KEX) session‑ID calculation has been publicly disclosed as CVE-2025-8114, and upstream maintainers, distribution security teams, and third‑party trackers classify the flaw as an availability vulnerability that can crash SSH clients or servers...

Vim for Windows ships a high‑severity local code‑execution flaw that can let a malicious file in a project folder run with the privileges of the user simply because the editor invoked an external command; the bug is tracked as CVE‑2025‑66476 and is fixed in Vim v9.1.1947 — users and...

A critical, maximum-severity flaw in React Server Components has been disclosed that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers — a vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑55182 that carries a perfect CVSS score of 10.0 and forces an urgent, ecosystem-wide...

A heap buffer over-read has been disclosed in the libpng library’s simplified write API: CVE-2025-64506 affects libpng versions 1.6.0 through 1.6.50 and is patched in libpng 1.6.51; the flaw stems from an incorrect conditional in png_write_image_8bit that can cause 8-bit image buffers to be...

Microsoft has recorded CVE‑2025‑62209 — an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows License Manager — and issued a security update on November 11, 2025 to address it; public trackers rate the flaw as CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium) with a local attack vector and a confidentiality‑only impact...

Microsoft has recorded a new elevation‑of‑privilege entry for the Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy under CVE‑2025‑59514 — a local, high‑impact flaw that Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists as an Elevation‑of‑Privilege (EoP) condition and which public vulnerability aggregators currently...