security patch

Microsoft’s December patch cycle produced a compatibility regression that left Message Queuing (MSMQ) queues inactive, IIS sites throwing opaque “insufficient resources” errors, and enterprise message-driven applications unable to write messages — a problem Microsoft has confirmed and patched...

The Linux kernel has received a targeted fix for CVE-2025-38131 — a race-condition in the CoreSight configfs handling that could allow an active trace configuration to be deactivated while it is being enabled, producing a reliable use‑after‑free (UAF) and a local denial‑of‑service condition...

Google’s December stable update corrected two high‑severity Chromium issues — a use‑after‑free in WebGPU (CVE‑2025‑14765) and an out‑of‑bounds read/write in V8 (CVE‑2025‑14766) — and the fixes were rolled into Chrome stable (143.0.7499.146/.147), with downstream consumers such as Microsoft Edge...

A small but important defensive patch landed in the Linux kernel in mid‑December 2025 that fixes a crash in the AMD DRM display stack: CVE‑2025‑68196 addresses a race where the display code could reference dc->current_state while calling into dc_update_planes_and_stream during link training (LT)...

A recently published Linux-kernel CVE, CVE-2025-68237, patches an integer‑overflow bug in the mtdchar read/write ioctls that — while not described as an immediate remote code‑execution vector — can produce incorrect arithmetic, allocation mistakes, and availability failures; maintainers fixed...

A newly recorded Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68261, fixes a subtle race in ext4 by adding i_data_sem protection to ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock, closing a window where inline-data teardown and block-mapping can collide and trigger a kernel BUG or panic. Background /...

A recently assigned CVE — CVE-2025-68264 — targets the Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem and documents a race-condition bug that can let stale inline-data size metadata lead to a kernel BUG_ON crash during writes to tiny “inline” files, prompting immediate patching across kernel trees and...

A small but important fix landed in the Linux kernel’s AMD display stack that corrects a sizing error and closes a local null‑pointer dereference in the DRM amdgpu code — a patch now tracked as CVE‑2025‑40354 that increases the driver’s maximum link count and guards against a NULL encoder access...

A small but sharp fix landed in the Linux kernel this week: the amdgpu DRM driver had two invalid BUG_ON checks removed because they can be triggered trivially by unprivileged userspace, a defect now tracked as CVE‑2025‑68201 and addressed upstream in the stable kernel trees. Background /...

Microsoft shipped a November patch that it said fixed a privilege‑escalation defect in Windows 11’s new Administrator Protection feature — but independent researchers say the remedy was incomplete, and public records show the exchange between Google’s Project Zero and Microsoft has not produced...

A small, easily overlooked piece of memory-management logic in the HDF5 C library has been rewarded with a CVE and a fast upstream fix: CVE-2025-2925 identifies a double‑free in the HDF5 function H5MM_realloc (src/H5MM.c) that can be triggered when a caller passes an effective size of zero. The...

A heap‑based buffer overflow has been disclosed in the HDF5 library: CVE‑2025‑2923 documents a flaw in the function H5F_addr_encode_len (file src/H5Fint.c) that can write past an allocated buffer when processing crafted data, producing a reliable crash and a low‑to‑medium severity local attack...

The X.Org Big Requests extension contains a subtle integer‑overflow bug that can be triggered by specially crafted request lengths, allowing an attacker with the right access to bypass the size check, cause out‑of‑‑bounds memory access and crashes, and in some configurations produce memory...

Microsoft released the December 2025 cumulative for Windows 10 ESU today as KB5071546, advancing eligible systems to Build 19045.6691 / 19044.6691 and packaging the November fixes plus a security-focused tweak to PowerShell 5.1. The update is available through Windows Update for devices that are...

Microsoft has cataloged a new elevation‑of‑privilege issue affecting Microsoft Exchange Server as CVE‑2025‑64666, a vulnerability vendors and trackers list as an Exchange Server elevation of privilege that requires immediate attention from administrators who run on‑premises or hybrid Exchange...

A small but important Linux kernel hardening landed this month: the framebuffer console (fbcon) subsystem was patched to clear stale pointers by setting fb_display*->mode to NULL when a framebuffer mode is released, closing a use‑after‑free discovered by syzkaller that could otherwise allow a...

A small but important Linux-kernel robustness fix has been recorded as CVE-2025-40315: a race condition in the USB Gadget full-speed (f_fs) function driver that could cause a kernel NULL-pointer dereference after an endpoint is enabled; operators should treat this as an availability risk, verify...

A recently assigned vulnerability identifier, CVE-2025-40319, describes a race condition in the Linux kernel’s BPF ring buffer implementation that can let a deferred interrupt-work handler access freed memory; the fix adds a synchronization call to ensure pending IRQ work completes before the...

A small, surgical change to the Linux virtio networking code has closed a correctness hole that could let a hostile or malformed host announcement trigger a NULL page pointer dereference when guests receive very large packets; the fix — now tracked as CVE-2025-40292 — tightens the...

A new Linux-kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑40314, has been published: a use‑after‑free in the cdns3 USB gadget driver that can occur when the cdnsp gadget fails to initialize or during gadget exit, and upstream kernel maintainers have merged a compact fix into recent stable trees to...