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Windows Admins: Patch Unbound Now for CVE-2026-42923 DNSSEC DoS
A medium-severity DNSSEC validation flaw tracked as CVE-2026-42923 was disclosed in May 2026, affecting NLnet Labs Unbound recursive DNS resolver up to version 1.25.0. The vulnerability allows a...
Unbound DNSSEC bug crashes Windows DNS, patch now to stop outages
NLnet Labs has patched a critical denial-of-service vulnerability in the Unbound DNS resolver that allows a single malicious DNS response to crash the service, potentially knocking entire Windows...
May 2026 Patch Tuesday: Critical 9.8-Rated DNS Client RCE Affects All Windows Versions
Microsoft’s May 12, 2026 Patch Tuesday release contains a fix for CVE-2026-41096, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows DNS Client that carries a CVSS severity score of 9.8. The bug,...
CVE-2026-41096 Flaw: Patch Windows DNS Client Now for 9.8 RCE Risk
Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday brought a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows DNS Client, tracked as CVE-2026-41096, with a CVSS base score of 9.8. Assigned to the...