Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59497, a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux that can be triggered by an authorized local actor to produce a denial-of-service (DoS) condition; a security update was released on October 14...
A newly recorded Windows kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55696, is a time‑of‑check/time‑of‑use (TOCTOU) race in the NtQueryInformationToken implementation (ntifs.h) that can allow a local attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM when exploited; Microsoft has published the entry in its...