Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
Cryptographic library wolfSSL versions before 5.6.6 crash or leak memory via malformed TLS 1.3 packets.
A critical vulnerability in the widely-used wolfSSL cryptographic library, tracked as CVE-2024-0901, has exposed millions of devices and applications to potential denial-of-service attacks and memory...
Pygments ReDoS Vulnerability: How Regex Backtracking Threatens Code Security
The Pygments syntax highlighting library, a cornerstone of Python development and documentation tools, faced a critical security vulnerability in March 2021 that exposed a fundamental weakness in how...
CVE-2021-20286: Libnbd DoS Vulnerability & Azure Linux Security Implications
A seemingly minor assertion bug in the open-source libnbd client library, tracked as CVE-2021-20286, has revealed significant security implications for cloud infrastructure, particularly Microsoft's...
Remotely triggerable QEMU flaw CVE-2021-20255 lets guest VMs crash hosts via infinite recursion.
A subtle yet critical vulnerability in QEMU's network device emulation has been uncovered, posing significant risks to virtualization environments running Windows and other operating systems....
Azure Linux Binutils CVE-2021-20197: Microsoft's Limited Advisory & Security Implications
Microsoft's recent security advisory regarding CVE-2021-20197 in Azure Linux has sparked significant discussion in the security community, revealing important nuances about how cloud providers...
Pygments CVE-2021-20270: How a 3-Character SML Token Caused Critical DoS Vulnerability
A seemingly innocuous three-character input—the Standard ML token exception—quietly exposed a critical logic flaw in the popular Python syntax-highlighting library Pygments, allowing attackers to...
CVE-2017-14867: Git CVSServer Command Injection Vulnerability Explained
The discovery of CVE-2017-14867 in 2017 revealed a critical security flaw in Git's CVSServer component that had existed for years, potentially exposing systems to remote command execution. This...
Azure Linux patched: CVE-2025-37744 memory leak in Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 driver threatens cloud stability
A critical memory management vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi 7 driver, tracked as CVE-2025-37744, has been patched upstream, raising important questions about kernel...
Azure Linux CVE Rejection: Why Artifact Security Matters More Than CVEs
When Microsoft published a security advisory about CVE-2025-37804 affecting Azure Linux in late 2024, the cybersecurity community took notice. The vulnerability, described as potentially allowing...
ECDSA flaw in Azure Linux kernel lets attackers bypass cloud attestation security
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel's cryptographic implementation has been disclosed by Microsoft, designated as CVE-2025-37984, affecting Azure Linux attestation services. This security...