Articles from 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2025
Patch now: Linux kernel CVE-2025-40355 allows local privilege escalation via sysfs namespace moves.
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel, designated CVE-2025-40355, exposes a subtle but significant flaw in how the kernel handles ownership changes of sysfs directories during network...
Linux Kernel COMEDI Driver Vulnerability CVE-2025-68257: Analysis & Windows Security Implications
The Linux kernel community has addressed a significant security vulnerability in the COMEDI (Control and Measurement Device Interface) subsystem, designated as CVE-2025-68257, which exposes a subtle...
Linux Kernel AMD KFD Race Fix for CVE-2025-68174: What Windows Users Need to Know
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AMD GPU stack has been patched, addressing a race condition in the AMD KFD (Kernel Fusion Driver) that could allow privilege escalation or...
CVE-2025-68259: Critical Linux KVM Vulnerability Threatens Virtualization Security
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor has security researchers and system administrators on high alert. Tracked as CVE-2025-68259, this...
CVE-2025-68261: The Ext4 Race That Can Crash Linux Hosts—Here’s How to Fix It
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s ext4 filesystem can allow an attacker or buggy process to crash the entire host—and the fix is a simple one-line locking change. Cataloged as...
Linux SMB Client Memory Leak (CVE-2025-68219) Patched – What Windows and Linux Admins Need to Know
A memory leak in the Linux kernel’s CIFS/SMB client, tracked as CVE-2025-68219, was patched upstream on December 16, 2025. The fix closes a gap where kernel memory could be slowly wasted every time...
Linux Kernel CVE-2025-68231: HIGHMEM Mempool Bug Fix Explained
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, designated CVE-2025-68231, has been patched in recent kernel releases, addressing a subtle but potentially disruptive bug in the memory...
CVE-2025-68264: Linux ext4 Inline Data Race Vulnerability Explained
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem has been assigned CVE-2025-68264, exposing systems to potential kernel crashes through a race condition in inline data handling. This...
Linux AMDGPU Patch Fixes Deterministic VM Crash After Hibernation Resume
A significant but narrowly targeted fix in the Linux kernel's AMDGPU DRM driver has been merged, addressing a deterministic crash that could occur after system hibernation on systems using Physical...
Linux Kernel CVE-2025-40354: AMD Display Stack Security Patch Analysis
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AMD display driver has been patched, addressing a sizing error and null-pointer dereference in the DRM amdgpu code that could potentially be...
Linux Kernel Patch Fixes Critical ksmbd Race Condition CVE-2025-68263
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's in-kernel SMB server (ksmbd) has been patched, addressing a dangerous race condition that could lead to kernel use-after-free (UAF)...
Linux BFS Filesystem Vulnerability CVE-2025-68266: Analysis & Patch Details
A significant security vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel's implementation of the Boot File System (BFS), a legacy filesystem that has largely faded from mainstream use but remains...