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The security vulnerability tag on WindowsForum.com covers a range of disclosed flaws affecting Linux, Windows, and third-party software. Discussions include CVE entries in the Linux kernel's ibmvfc driver, perf subsystem, and netfilter conntrack, as well as Windows RRAS remote-code-execution flaws patched via hotpatch KB5084597. Other topics include a MariaDB audit bypass, a Vim terminal Unicode overflow, and a Node.js tar hardlink escape. Common themes are memory safety issues (out-of-bounds reads, use-after-free, refcount bugs), audit gaps, and the importance of timely patching. The tag is relevant for IT administrators, security researchers, and anyone tracking vulnerability disclosures and mitigations across operating systems and applications.
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    CVE-2026-31464: Linux ibmvfc Out-of-Bounds Read Can Leak Kernel Memory

    The Linux kernel has a new security issue on the radar, and this one is a reminder that even highly specialized storage and virtualization paths can leak sensitive state when a single bounds check is missed. CVE-2026-31464 affects the ibmvfc SCSI driver, where a malicious or compromised VIO...
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    What CVSS S:C Means for CVE-2026-27928: Changed Scope and Tenant Cross-Access

    In CVSS terms, S:C means the vulnerability has a changed scope: a successful exploit can cross a security boundary and affect something outside the vulnerable component’s own authorization context. In plain English, the attacker is not just influencing the Windows Hello component itself; they...
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    CVE-2026-23248: Perf mmap Refcount Bug Potential Use-After-Free Risk

    The Linux kernel’s perf subsystem has a new security-flavored bug fix on the table: CVE-2026-23248, described as a refcount bug and potential use-after-free in perf_mmap. The Microsoft Security Response Center entry currently returns a not-found page, but the title itself is enough to tell a...
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    KB5084597: Windows RRAS Hotpatch Fix for RCE Flaws in Enterprise

    Microsoft’s out‑of‑band hotpatch KB5084597, quietly deployed in mid‑March 2026, closes a cluster of critical remote‑code‑execution flaws in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) management tool — and it does so using Microsoft’s hotpatch mechanism so eligible enterprise endpoints...
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    CVE-2026-3494: MariaDB Audit Bypass Leaves Logs Gaps

    MariaDB’s audit subsystem contains a subtle but consequential gap: authenticated users can execute queries prefixed with SQL comment markers and those statements may not be recorded by the server audit plugin when certain query-filtering options are enabled, creating an audit‑logging bypass...
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    Urgent Vim Update: Patch for CVE-2026-28420 Terminal Unicode Overflow

    Vim users should update immediately: a newly assigned vulnerability, CVE-2026-28420, allows a heap-based buffer overflow write and an out-of-bounds read in Vim’s terminal emulator when processing extreme Unicode combining sequences; the upstream fix appears in Vim patch v9.2.0076. (github.com)...
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    CVE-2026-26960 Node tar Hardlink Escape Fixed in tar 7.5.8

    A crafted tar archive can now turn a routine Node.js extraction into a pathway for reading and writing arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory — a high‑severity flaw in the widely used node‑tar package tracked as CVE‑2026‑26960 that was fixed in node‑tar 7.5.8. Background...
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    CVE-2023-7192: Linux Conntrack Refcount Leak DoS Risk

    CVE-2023-7192 is a memory-management bug in the Linux kernel’s netfilter conntrack netlink path that can leak references and eventually cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition; the flaw lives in ctnetlink_create_conntrack (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c) and can be triggered by a local...
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    CVE-2020-28163: libdwarf crash from DWARF5 line table header

    A subtle corruption in a DWARF5 line-table header can still bring a debugging toolchain to its knees: CVE-2020-28163 is a null-pointer dereference in libdwarf’s dwarf_print_lines.c that allows a crafted DWARF5 line-table header with an invalid FORM for a pathname to crash applications that...
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    CVE-2020-27545: One byte OOB read in libdwarf line table fixed in 20201017

    libdwarf — the small, unassuming library that reads DWARF debug data — contains a parsing defect tracked as CVE‑2020‑27545 that, in releases prior to 20201017, can be induced by a crafted object to perform a one‑byte out‑of‑bounds read via an invalid pointer dereference in a malformed line...
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    CVE-2024-6345: Urgent Setuptools RCE via URL Downloads Patch to 70.0+

    A high-severity remote-code-execution flaw in the widely used Python packaging library pypa/setuptools — tracked as CVE-2024-6345 — lets attackers turn crafted package URLs into arbitrary command execution on affected systems; the bug affects setuptools versions up to 69.1.1 and was corrected in...
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    CVE-2021-38190: Nalgebra Deserialization Bug Risks Memory Safety in Rust

    The Rust linear-algebra crate nalgebra contained a deserialization bug that could let crafted input violate a core size invariant, producing out‑of‑bounds memory access and potentially causing memory corruption, crashes, and denial of service in any application that deserializes untrusted data...
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    Linux ftsteutates TOCTOU Fix: Read Once to Prevent Crashes

    The Linux kernel received a targeted fix addressing a subtle but real Time‑of‑Check to Time‑of‑Use (TOCTOU) race in the hwmon driver ftsteutates: the fts_read() path could read a shared fan source index twice without synchronization, opening a narrow window where a concurrent update changes the...
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    CVE-2022-24795: Harden yajl-ruby Against 32-bit Integer Overflow

    A deep, quietly dangerous integer‑overflow in the C layer of the popular Ruby JSON binding yajl‑ruby can turn very large JSON inputs into heap corruption and sustained process outages — operators should treat CVE‑2022‑24795 as a practical availability threat on 32‑bit builds and patch...
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    Linux Kernel MHI PCI Deadlock Fix CVE-2025-21951

    A subtle locking change in the Linux kernel’s MHI PCI host driver — tracked as CVE-2025-21951 — patched a deadlock that could cause a full loss of availability during device recovery or system power-management transitions, and operators should treat it as a real operational risk for systems that...
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    libxml2 CVE-2023-45322: Hidden Use-After-Free in xmlUnlinkNode Explained

    libxml2 contained a subtle but real use‑after‑free in its tree manipulation code that was assigned CVE‑2023‑45322 — a bug that only triggers after a specific memory allocation fails, but which nevertheless exposes real availability and stability risks for any software that embeds the library...
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    CVE-2023-38546: libcurl Cookie Duplication Bug and Patch 8.4.0

    A subtle bug in libcurl’s handle-duplication logic can let an attacker plant cookies into a running process under a narrow set of conditions — a reliability bug that turned into a security issue and was assigned CVE‑2023‑38546. The flaw is small in scope, rated low severity by the curl project...
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    CVE-2024-46674: Linux st_dwc3 USB driver refcount bug fixed

    A subtle mistake in the Linux USB driver stack has been quietly corrected — and the fix exposes a classic kernel problem: an erroneous decrement of a platform device reference count in the DesignWare Core USB3 (dwc3) ST driver that can lead to use‑after‑free and service loss. The vulnerability...
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    CVE-2025-37769: AMD SMU11 Division by Zero Crashes Linux Kernel

    A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s AMD DRM power-management code — tracked as CVE-2025-37769 — allows a carefully crafted input to trigger a division-by-zero inside the SMU11 power-management path, causing kernel crashes and sustained denial-of-service on affected systems...
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    Go Zip Reader Panic CVE-2021-41772: Fixes in Go 1.16.10 and 1.17.3

    A subtle bug in Go’s standard library quietly opened a door for denial-of-service attacks: malformed ZIP entries could cause archive/zip’s Reader.Open to panic, crashing programs that relied on the io/fs.FS integration introduced in Go 1.16. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-41772 (GO-2021-0264)...