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Microsoft Flags Linux Be2net Driver Flaw CVE-2025-40264: Patch Now to Avert Server Crashes
Microsoft's Security Response Center has published a vulnerability entry for CVE-2025-40264, a null-pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's be2net network driver that can crash servers when...
Linux Kernel QEDE Driver CVE-2025-40252: Critical Security Fix for Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
A subtle yet significant security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem has been patched, addressing a potential out-of-bounds read condition in the QLogic QEDE Ethernet driver....
Linux Kernel Removes Broken OVS set(nsh) Action After 7 Years of Inactivity
The Linux kernel development community has quietly addressed a significant security and correctness issue in its Open vSwitch (OVS) implementation that persisted for years without detection....
Linux MPTCP Race Condition Fix: Critical CVE-2025-40258 Security Alert
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Multipath TCP (MPTCP) implementation has been patched, addressing a subtle race condition that could lead to use-after-free scenarios and...
Patch released for Linux GFS2 DLM race condition that could crash clusters
A significant security vulnerability affecting the GFS2 (Global File System 2) cluster filesystem in Linux kernels has been addressed with the recent disclosure of CVE-2025-40242. This use-after-free...
Linux Kernel Patch Fixes Critical Memory Corruption Bug CVE-2025-40262
The Linux kernel development community has released a critical security patch addressing CVE-2025-40262, a memory corruption vulnerability in the IMX SCU key driver (imx_sc_key) that affects systems...
Linux Kernel Squashes SCTP NULL Pointer Panic Bug CVE-2025-40240
The Linux kernel development community has released a critical security patch addressing CVE-2025-40240, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)...
Linux Kernel CVE-2025-40245: Nios2 Boot Bug & Windows Security Parallels
A subtle but critical boot-time initialization bug in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2025-40245, has been disclosed and patched, revealing vulnerabilities in memory management that resonate across...
Linux Kernel CVE-2025-40217: Critical pidfs ioctl Hardening Fix Explained
The Linux kernel development community has addressed a significant security vulnerability designated CVE-2025-40217, which involved a validation shortcoming in the pidfs ioctl handling mechanism....
Linux Kernel CVE-2025-40219: Critical SR-IOV PCI Race Condition Fix Explained
A significant security vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been patched, addressing a long-standing race condition and locking gap in the kernel's SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) PCI...
Linux FUSE Livelock Fix: CVE-2025-40220 Patch Prevents I/O Freezes
A critical concurrency bug in the Linux kernel's FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) subsystem that could cause complete I/O worker freezes has been patched upstream, addressing CVE-2025-40220. This...
Linux Kernel Fixes CVE-2025-40218 to Prevent DAMON Infinite Page Walks
The Linux kernel community has addressed a subtle but critical correctness bug in the Data Access MONitor (DAMON) subsystem, tracked as CVE-2025-40218, which could lead to infinite page table walks...