Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
USB-C Chargers Could Leak Your Linux PC’s Memory—The Kernel Fix Is Here
Linux kernel maintainers disclosed a vulnerability on July 19, 2026, that could let a malicious USB-C charger or dock read uninitialized stack memory from your machine. The flaw, tagged...
Linux Kernel Bug Fixed After 20 Years: WSL 2 and VM Users Must Update to Avoid Memory Attacks
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s legacy audio compatibility layer was disclosed on July 19, 2026, after lurking in the code since 2006. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-64001, can...
Linux Kernel Crash Bug Hits WSL 2 and Docker — Here’s How to Patch It
A recently published Linux kernel flaw (CVE-2026-64079) can crash systems running Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), Docker Desktop, or any Linux virtual machine, following a race condition in...
Linux Kernel BPF Flaw CVE-2026-64036 Exposes Local Attack Paths – Patch Now
Linux kernel maintainers have published a high-severity fix for CVE-2026-64036, a flaw in the cgroup rstat subsystem that can be triggered by eBPF programs with elevated privileges. The...
Apple's Next iPhone May Have Two Batteries — Here's What the iOS 27 Code Reveals
Apple’s fourth iOS 27 developer beta, released on July 21, contains newly discovered code strings that explicitly address an iPhone with multiple internal batteries. The pluralized messages in the...
New Linux LM90 Driver Flaw: What Windows and WSL Administrators Should Do Right Now
On July 19, 2026, CVE-2026-64038 landed in the National Vulnerability Database, detailing a use-after-free race condition in the Linux kernel’s lm90 hardware-monitoring driver. The bug can corrupt...
BusyBox 1.38.0 Heap Overflow Puts Routers, Containers, and IoT at Risk—Here’s How to Respond
A newly disclosed vulnerability in BusyBox’s ash shell can be triggered by crafted input to cause a denial of service, potentially crashing routers, embedded appliances, and containerized systems....
CVE-2026-63882: A Missing Check in AMD’s Linux Kernel Driver Can Crash Your System
Linux kernel maintainers have patched a newly cataloged flaw in AMD’s GPU compute stack that can trigger an instant system crash. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63882, was published on July...
Patch Now: AMDGPU Kernel Race Condition (CVE-2026-63879) Opens Linux Systems to Local Attacks
On July 19, 2026, the Linux kernel security team disclosed CVE-2026-63879, a high-severity vulnerability in the AMDGPU driver that could let a local attacker read or corrupt sensitive memory. The...
Fix Your WSL 2 Kernel Now: Linux Ebtables Flaw CVE-2026-64077 Scores High Severity
A high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-64077) was published on July 19, 2026, and it’s not just a problem for Linux admins. With a CVSS score of 7.8, the bug targets the ebtables...
Encforge Ransomware Encrypts AI Models and Datasets—Here’s How to Protect Your ML Pipeline
The threat actor behind the first fully autonomous ransomware operation has resurfaced with a new weapon that locks up model weights, training datasets, embedding indexes, and other machine-learning...
A Zero-Length I/O Request Just Became a Critical Linux Kernel Vuln—Here’s What to Patch
On July 19, 2026, kernel.org disclosed CVE-2026-63940, a critical flaw in the Linux kernel’s KVM handling for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization. The vulnerability—a failure to reject Port I/O...