Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
libxml2 CVE-2023-45322 patched in versions 2.11.7 and 2.12.5 after memory flaw risked code execution.
The libxml2 library, a fundamental component powering XML parsing across countless applications on Windows and other platforms, contained a subtle but dangerous use-after-free vulnerability...
CVE-2023-39325: Complete Guide to Go HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Vulnerability & Azure Linux Impact
The cybersecurity landscape was shaken in October 2023 when researchers disclosed CVE-2023-39325, a critical HTTP/2 protocol vulnerability affecting numerous web servers and applications, including...
Go Builders Beware: A Single Source Directive Can Hijack Your Entire CI Pipeline
Go developers and the DevOps shops that support them got a jolt in October 2023 when the Go project disclosed that an attacker could compromise build servers simply by slipping a cleverly crafted...
How a Metric Label Chokehold Can Crash Your Go Service: OpenTelemetry CVE-2023-45142 Patched
Microsoft’s security response center last week flagged a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in the OpenTelemetry Go instrumentation libraries that could let an attacker crash your...
Urgent: 'Looney Tunables' glibc Exploit Grants Root on Azure Linux and Other Distros – Patch Now
A severe privilege escalation vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) that affects a wide swath of Linux distributions—including Microsoft’s own Azure Linux—is now under active exploitation,...
Memcached Proxy Flaw (CVE-2023-46853) Lets Attackers Crash Servers — Patch Now
A vulnerability in Memcached’s proxy subsystem can be exploited remotely to crash the service or, under certain conditions, execute arbitrary code. The severity is scored 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS...
Go Elliptic Curve Bug CVE-2022-23806: Security Impact & Windows Implications
A critical vulnerability in Go's cryptographic libraries, designated CVE-2022-23806, exposed a fundamental flaw in how the programming language verified points on elliptic curves, potentially...
CVE-2023-46118: Critical RabbitMQ DoS Vulnerability Threatens Windows Server Deployments
A critical resource exhaustion vulnerability in RabbitMQ's Management API, tracked as CVE-2023-46118, has emerged as a significant threat to Windows Server environments running the popular message...
Azure Linux Attestation & MiniZip CVEs: Microsoft's Security Transparency Under Scrutiny
Microsoft's recent security advisory regarding vulnerabilities in the MiniZip library within Azure Linux has sparked significant discussion about the company's approach to open-source security...
CVE-2023-38546: The libcurl Cookie Duplication Vulnerability Explained
A subtle but significant security vulnerability in libcurl's handle duplication mechanism has been patched in version 8.4.0, addressing CVE-2023-38546. This bug, which existed in the widely-used data...
CVE-2022-21698: How Prometheus Metric Cardinality Became a Critical Security Vulnerability
The cybersecurity landscape witnessed a paradigm shift in January 2022 when CVE-2022-21698 revealed how a fundamental observability tool could be weaponized against the very systems it was designed...
Go math/big SetString Vulnerability CVE-2022-23772: Memory Exhaustion Threat & Patch Analysis
A critical vulnerability discovered in Go's standard library exposed countless applications to potential denial-of-service attacks through carefully crafted input. CVE-2022-23772, affecting the...