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    CVE-2026-64205 Fixes Intel SMBus Hangs in Linux 6.18.39

    CVE-2026-64205 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability with an unusual but important failure mode: an error-handling path in the Intel i801 SMBus driver can corrupt the controller’s hardware state when Linux tries to clean up a transaction it never successfully acquired. The result is...
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    CVE-2026-43305 AMD Linux Display Bug Fix: Prevent System Hangs

    CVE-2026-43305 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, disclosed through kernel.org and surfaced in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide on May 8, 2026, that fixes an AMD display-driver bug capable of hanging affected systems during a fast display update path. That plain sentence is the...
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    CVE-2026-31552: wlcore Wi‑Fi driver -EAGAIN vs -ENOMEM infinite retry CPU soft lockup

    CVE-2026-31552 is a reminder that kernel security failures do not always arrive as dramatic memory corruption bugs or remote code execution chains. This Linux Wi-Fi driver flaw turns on a deceptively small change: returning -EAGAIN instead of -ENOMEM when the wlcore driver cannot expand packet...
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    CVE-2026-31448 ext4 Infinite Loop: Extent/Xattr Bug and Patch Guidance

    The Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem has a newly published vulnerability, CVE-2026-31448, that can trap the filesystem in an infinite loop under a narrow but nasty failure sequence involving extent allocation, xattr block reuse, and metadata inconsistency. NVD published the record on April 22...