Heap Overflow
The latest Heap Overflow coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
CVE-2025-6269: Critical HDF5 Heap Overflow Threatens Scientific & Windows Applications
A critical security vulnerability in the widely-used HDF5 data format library has sent shockwaves through scientific computing, engineering, and Windows application ecosystems. Designated...
CVE-2025-2914: Critical HDF5 Heap Overflow Threatens Scientific & Windows Apps
A critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the widely used HDF5 data management library, tracked as CVE-2025-2914, has been publicly disclosed, posing significant risks to scientific...
CVE-2025-2924: HDF5 Heap Overflow PoC Is Public—Here’s How Windows Users Should Respond
A heap buffer overflow in the HDF5 data library, cataloged as CVE-2025-2924, can crash applications and potentially corrupt memory when processing malicious .h5 files. The flaw was disclosed in late...
HDF5 CVE-2025-44904 Heap Overflow: Critical Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation
A critical heap-buffer overflow vulnerability in the widely used HDF5 scientific data format library has sent shockwaves through scientific computing, research institutions, and enterprise...
CVE-2025-44905: Critical HDF5 Heap Overflow Threatens Scientific Data Security
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the widely used HDF5 data format library has been assigned CVE-2025-44905, posing significant security risks to scientific computing, data processing...
Heap overflow in Windows DWM grants SYSTEM-level access with CVE-2025-64680.
Microsoft's security team has flagged a significant new vulnerability in Windows systems that could allow attackers to gain elevated privileges on affected machines. CVE-2025-64680, added to...
CVE-2025-62456: Critical ReFS Heap Overflow Vulnerability Demands Immediate Windows Patching
Microsoft has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in the Resilient File System (ReFS) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected Windows systems. Designated as...
CVE-2025-62220: Critical WSLg Heap Overflow Vulnerability Patched
Microsoft has addressed a critical security vulnerability in the Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI (WSLg) that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The heap-based...
CVE-2025-58725: Critical Windows COM+ EoP Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching
Microsoft has disclosed a critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows COM+ Event System, designated CVE-2025-58725, that could allow attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on affected...
CVE-2025-55697: Critical Azure Local Heap Overflow Vulnerability Analysis
Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2025-55697, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Azure's local components that enables authenticated local users to achieve privilege escalation on...
CVE-2016-9535: LibTIFF Heap Overflow Vulnerability Analysis and Security Patch Guide
The LibTIFF codebase contains a critical memory-safety vulnerability tracked as CVE-2016-9535, a heap buffer overflow in the predictor/tile handling code that was introduced in version 4.0.6 and...
CVE-2025-59295: Critical IE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Threatens Windows Security
A newly discovered critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer has security experts urging immediate action from Windows administrators and users. CVE-2025-59295, rated with a high CVSS score of 8.8,...