vendor attestation

A stack-based buffer overflow in QEMU’s virtio‑net implementation (CVE‑2023‑6693) has prompted a routine but important question from Azure customers: when Microsoft’s MSRC public advisory says “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected,” does that mean...

CSP violations that printed clickable links into the Developer Tools console — which in turn triggered DNS prefetches pointing at the violating host — created a subtle but real information‑leak that was assigned CVE‑2024‑6612 and fixed in Mozilla products; the short, operational truth is simple...

The short answer is: No — Azure Linux is not necessarily the only Microsoft product that could include the vulnerable ath9k_htc code, but it is the only Microsoft product Microsoft has publicly attested so far as “including this open‑source library and therefore potentially affected.” That...

Microsoft’s brief FAQ line — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate as a product‑level inventory statement, but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product can include the same vulnerable code; the true blast radius...

The recent CVE entry for CVE-2024-43891 — a Linux kernel tracing fix described as “tracing: Have format file honor EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED” — prompted a familiar question among Azure customers and enterprise operators: when Microsoft’s MSRC page says “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library...

Microsoft’s brief advisory — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is accurate for the inventory Microsoft has completed, but it is not a technical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could contain the same vulnerable CIFS code. ]...