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Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Update Stack allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows ALPC allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Chromium CVE-2026-87491: Out of bounds write in V8
Microsoft Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
The kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607, and Windows Server 2016 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handleposixcputimers() and posixcputimerdel()
If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exitnotify() and calls handleposixcputimers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlocktasksighand().
If a concurrent posixcputimerdel() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cputimertaskrcu() and/or locktasksighand() will fail.
Add the tsk->exitstate check into runposixcputimers() to fix this.
This fix is not needed if CONFIGPOSIXCPUTIMERSTASKWORK=y, because exittaskwork() is called before exitnotify(). But the check still makes sense, taskworkadd(&tsk->posixcputimerswork.work) will fail anyway in this case.
crypto: algifaead - Revert to operating out-of-place
Chromium: CVE-2026-85046 Type confusion in V8
Fragnesia is a universal Linux local privilege escalation exploit, discovered by William Bowling with the V12 team. Fragnesia is a member of the Dirty Frag vulnerability class. This is a separate bug in the ESP/XFRM from dirtyfrag which has received its own patch. However, it is in the same surface and the mitigation is the same as for dirtyfrag.
It abuses a logic bug in the Linux XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem to achieve arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files, without requiring any race condition.
The technique extends the page-cache write bug class that includes Dirty Pipe: when a TCP socket transitions to espintcp ULP mode after data has already been spliced from a file into the receive queue, the kernel processes the queued file pages as ESP ciphertext. The AES-GCM keystream byte at counter block position 2, byte 0 is XORed directly into the cached file page. By selecting the IV nonce to produce a desired keystream byte, any target byte in the file can be set to any value — one byte per trigger invocation.
The exploit builds a 256-entry lookup table mapping each possible keystream byte to its corresponding nonce, then iterates over a payload, firing the splice/ULP race for each byte that needs changing. It writes a small position-independent ELF stub (setresuid/setresgid/execve /bin/sh) over the first 192 bytes of /usr/bin/su in the page cache, then calls execve("/usr/bin/su") to obtain a root shell. The page cache modification is not backed to disk; the on-disk binary is untouched.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nftables: fix use-after-free in nftablesaddchain()
nftablesaddchain() publishes the chain to table->chains via listaddtailrcu() (in nftchainadd()) before registering hooks. If nftablesregisterhook() then fails, the error path calls nftchaindel() (listdelrcu()) followed by nftableschaindestroy() with no RCU grace period in between.
This creates two use-after-free conditions:
1) Control-plane: nftablesdumpchains() traverses table->chains under rcureadlock(). A concurrent dump can still be walking the chain when the error path frees it.
2) Packet path: for NFPROTOINET, nfregisternethook() briefly installs the IPv4 hook before IPv6 registration fails. Packets entering nftdochain() via the transient IPv4 hook can still be dereferencing chain->blobgenX when the error path frees the chain.
Add synchronizercu() between nftchaindel() and the chain destroy so that all RCU readers -- both dump threads and in-flight packet evaluation -- have finished before the chain is freed.
A security regression (CVE-2006-5051) was discovered in OpenSSH's server (sshd). There is a race condition which can lead sshd to handle some signals in an unsafe manner. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to trigger it by failing to authenticate within a set time period.
Accessibility. A privacy issue was addressed by removing sensitive data.
A flaw was found in rsync which could be triggered when rsync compares file checksums. This flaw allows an attacker to manipulate the checksum length (s2length) to cause a comparison between a checksum and uninitialized memory and leak one byte of uninitialized stack data at a time.
Accessibility. A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2025-48384 is regarding a vulnerability in Git where when reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). When writing a config entry, values with a trailing CR are not quoted, causing the CR to be lost when the config is later read. When initializing a submodule, if the submodule path contains a trailing CR, the altered path is read resulting in the submodule being checked out to an incorrect location. If a symlink exists that points the altered path to the submodule hooks directory, and the submodule contains an executable post-checkout hook, the script may be unintentionally executed after checkout. GitHub created this CVE on their behalf. The documented Visual Studio updates incorporate updates in Git which address this vulnerability. Please see CVE-2025-48384 for more information.
An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below (newer versions of FreeType are not vulnerable) when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files. The vulnerable code assigns a signed short value to an unsigned long and then adds a static value causing it to wrap around and allocate too small of a heap buffer. The code then writes up to 6 signed long integers out of bounds relative to this buffer. This may result in arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability may have been exploited in the wild.
Android contains an unspecified vulnerability in the kernel that allows for remote code execution. This vulnerability resides in Linux Kernel and could impact other products, including but not limited to Android OS.
In ip6appenddata(), when the paged-allocation branch is taken (MSGMORE / NETIFFSG / large fraglen), alloclen and pagedlen are computed as
alloclen = fragheaderlen + transhdrlen; pagedlen = datalen - transhdrlen;
datalen already includes fraggap (datalen = length + fraggap). When fraggap is non-zero, this is not the first skb and transhdrlen is zero. The fraggap bytes carried over from the previous skb are copied just past the fragment headers in the new skb's linear area. The linear area is therefore undersized by fraggap bytes while pagedlen is overstated by the same amount, and the copy writes past skb->end into the trailing skbsharedinfo.
An unprivileged user can trigger this via a UDPv6 socket using MSGMORE together with MSGSPLICEPAGES.
The bad accounting was introduced by commit 773ba4fe9104 ("ipv6: avoid partial copy for zc"). Before commit ce650a166335 ("udp6: Fix ip6appenddata()'s handling of MSGSPLICEPAGES"), the negative copy value caused -EINVAL to be returned. That later commit allowed MSGSPLICEPAGES to proceed in this case, making the corruption triggerable.
The non-paged branch sets alloclen to fraglen, which already accounts for fraggap because datalen does. Bring the paged branch in line by adding fraggap to alloclen and subtracting it from pagedlen.
After this adjustment, copy no longer collapses to -fraggap on the paged path, so remove the stale comment describing that old arithmetic. Since a negative copy is no longer expected for a valid MSGSPLICEPAGES case, remove the MSGSPLICEPAGES exception from the negative copy check.
Acrobat Reader versions 24.001.30356, 26.001.21367 and earlier are affected by an Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SQL Server when it incorrectly handles processing of internal functions, aka 'Microsoft SQL Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
Microsoft Windows Common Log File System Driver contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local, privileged attacker to bypass certain security mechanisms.
A use-after-free flaw was found in nftables cross-table in the net/netfilter/nftablesapi.c function in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local, privileged attacker to cause a use-after-free problem at the time of table deletion, possibly leading to local privilege escalation.
Microsoft Exchange Server contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution. This vulnerability is part of the ProxyLogon exploit chain.
An authenticated attacker could leverage improper validation in cmdlet arguments within Microsoft Exchange and perform remote code execution.
A security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Excel would allow a local user to perform arbitrary code execution.
Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.