Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-04-30
Articles for the IT Professional. Each day we look at roughly 100 sites for Windows articles and bring them here.
Updated on April 29, 2026 at 7:16:28 PM GMT
Enterprises need to think beyond GPUs for agentic AI, analysts say
The ongoing shift from generative AI (genAI) to agentic AI provides an opportunity for enterprises to move to more nimble and less expensive forms of computing, according to analysts.
Early AI model...
Apple will be behind on AI — until it isn’t – Computerworld
Apr 28, 2026 - computerworld.com
Can Apple’s new CEO turn things around?
When Apple rolled out hardware chief John Ternus as the CEO to replace Tim Cook, the reaction was kind but muted. That’s because Ternus has said nothing yet to indicate he has a specific plan to posit...
Apple will be behind on AI — until it isn’t – Computerworld
Apr 28, 2026 - computerworld.com
Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out
'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker' Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did...
The Register
Apr 28, 2026 - go.theregister.com
Intune and shared devices
$1 submitted by /u/TheAkita
Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators
Apr 28, 2026 - reddit.com
Uninstall Copilot from Windows 11 with RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp Group Policy, PowerShell or Intune
Microsoft released a new policy in April 2026 that lets you remove the Microsoft Copilot consumer app from managed Windows 11 devices using Group Policy or Microsoft Intune. The policy is called Remov...
4sysops
Apr 28, 2026 - 4sysops.com
Did I Do Something Wrong?
$1 submitted by /u/notRea11ySure
Reddit : Sysadmin
Apr 28, 2026 - reddit.com
Firefox 150.0.1 is out with important security fixes, higher limits for Relay, and bug fixes
Firefox 150.0.1 is out with important security and bug fixes, plus some nice changes to those who use Firefox Relay and its free tier. Read more...
Neowin
Apr 28, 2026 - neowin.net
‘Free Speech’ President Trump, Once Again, Tries To Get Jimmy Kimmel Fired For Jokes
Apparently we’ve reached the stage of the second Trump presidency when we’re doing reruns of the old hits. As you’ll recall, Donald Trump has been desperate to get late-night TV host and comedian Jimm...
Techdirt
Apr 28, 2026 - techdirt.com
Feuding Ransomware Groups Leak Each Other's Data
When 0APT and KryBit attacked each other, they exposed infrastructure and operational data, giving defenders rare insight into ransomware operations.
darkreading
Apr 28, 2026 - darkreading.com
California bid to curb Big Tech self-preferencing fails after Apple-backed lobbying blitz
A California bill aimed at stopping trillion-dollar tech companies from favoring their own products has failed after an intense opposition campaign. Here are the details.
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9to5Mac
Apr 28, 2026 - 9to5mac.com
American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding
The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r...
VentureBeat
Apr 28, 2026 - venturebeat.com
I investigated Windows 11’s massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
Windows 11 updates are getting huge, with recent cumulative packages crossing 5GB. By extracting the updates, we discovered the real reason behind the bloat. Microsoft is bundling dozens of MSIX files...
Windows Latest
Apr 28, 2026 - windowslatest.com
How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying...
VentureBeat
Apr 28, 2026 - venturebeat.com
CVE-2026-41079 OpenPrinting CUPS: Heap out-of-bounds read in SNMP supply-level polling leaks stack memory to authenticated users
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31689 EDAC/mc: Fix error path ordering in edac_mc_alloc()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31686 mm/kasan: fix double free for kasan pXds
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31688 driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31473 media: mc, v4l2: serialize REINIT and REQBUFS with req_queue_mutex
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31476 ksmbd: do not expire session on binding failure
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31477 ksmbd: fix memory leaks and NULL deref in smb2_lock()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31478 ksmbd: replace hardcoded hdr2_len with offsetof() in smb2_calc_max_out_buf_len()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31480 tracing: Fix potential deadlock in cpu hotplug with osnoise
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31548 wifi: cfg80211: cancel pmsr_free_wk in cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31549 i2c: cp2615: fix serial string NULL-deref at probe
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31550 pmdomain: bcm: bcm2835-power: Increase ASB control timeout
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31551 wifi: mac80211: Fix static_branch_dec() underflow for aql_disable.
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31552 wifi: wlcore: Return -ENOMEM instead of -EAGAIN if there is not enough headroom
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31560 spi: spi-dw-dma: fix print error log when wait finish transaction
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31565 RDMA/irdma: Fix deadlock during netdev reset with active connections
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31568 s390/mm: Add missing secure storage access fixups for donated memory
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31574 clockevents: Add missing resets of the next_event_forced flag
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31575 mm/userfaultfd: fix hugetlb fault mutex hash calculation
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31577 nilfs2: fix NULL i_assoc_inode dereference in nilfs_mdt_save_to_shadow_map
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31579 wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31580 bcache: fix cached_dev.sb_bio use-after-free and crash
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31584 media: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in encoder release path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31625 HID: alps: fix NULL pointer dereference in alps_raw_event()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31634 rxrpc: fix reference count leak in rxrpc_server_keyring()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31651 mmc: vub300: fix NULL-deref on disconnect
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31656 drm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31659 batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31660 nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31661 wifi: brcmsmac: Fix dma_free_coherent() size
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31664 xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31668 seg6: separate dst_cache for input and output paths in seg6 lwtunnel
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31670 net: rfkill: prevent unlimited numbers of rfkill events from being created
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31671 xfrm_user: fix info leak in build_report()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31672 wifi: rt2x00usb: fix devres lifetime
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31563 net: macb: Use dev_consume_skb_any() to free TX SKBs
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31648 mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41066 lxml: Default configuration of iterparse() and ETCompatXMLParser() allows XXE to local files
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-40225
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5435 Potential buffer overflow in ns_sprintrrf TSIG handling path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-40556 Insecure Directory Permissions in GNU nano Leading to Privilege Abuse
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2022-2068 The c_rehash script allows command injection
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2019-1563 Padding Oracle in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2019-1547 ECDSA remote timing attack
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-6861 Emacs: emacs: memory corruption vulnerability when processing svg css
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-2708 Libsoup: libsoup: http request smuggling via duplicate content-length headers
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-6732 Libxml2: libxml2: denial of service via crafted xsd-validated document
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41898 rust-openssl: Unchecked callback-returned length in PSK and cookie generate trampolines can cause OpenSSL to leak adjacent memory to the network peer
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2025-13763 Libopensc: opensc: multiple uses of uninitialized variable
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-6019 BaseCookie.js_output() does not neutralize embedded characters
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-29181 OpenTelemetry-Go multi-value `baggage` header extraction causes excessive allocations (remote dos amplification)
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-24051 OpenTelemetry-Go Affected by Arbitrary Code Execution via PATH Hijacking
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-27141 Sending certain HTTP/2 frames can cause a server to panic in golang.org/x/net
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-33999 Xorg: xwayland: x.org x server: denial of service via integer underflow in xkb compatibility map handling
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-34001 Xorg: xwayland: x.org x server: use-after-free vulnerability leads to server crash and potential memory corruption
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-34003 Xorg: xwayland: x.org x server: information exposure and denial of service via out-of-bounds memory access
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
No, Windows 11 KB5083769 is not causing BSODs or death loops, and you don’t have to remove the update
Microsoft told me it’s not aware of any critical issues with Windows 11 KB5083769, the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update. Plus, I do not see any credible evidence to the contrary, so where are headlines...
Windows Latest
Apr 29, 2026 - windowslatest.com
CVE-2026-23391 netfilter: xt_CT: drop pending enqueued packets on template removal
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-23395 Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix accepting multiple L2CAP_ECRED_CONN_REQ
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-28389 Possible NULL Dereference When Processing CMS KeyAgreeRecipientInfo
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-23406 apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31788 xen/privcmd: restrict usage in unprivileged domU
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41140 Poetry: Path traversal in tar extraction on Python 3.10.0 - 3.10.12 and 3.11.0 - 3.11.4
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-28390 Possible NULL Dereference When Processing CMS KeyTransportRecipientInfo
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41411 Vim: Command injection via backtick expansion in tag filenames
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31557 nvmet: move async event work off nvmet-wq
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-32147 SFTP chroot bypass via path traversal in SSH_FXP_FSETSTAT
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31555 futex: Clear stale exiting pointer in futex_lock_pi() retry path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31607 usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31667 Input: uinput - fix circular locking dependency with ff-core
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41677 rust-openssl: Out-of-bounds read in PEM password callback when user callback returns an oversized length
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31536 smb: server: let send_done handle a completion without IB_SEND_SIGNALED
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31583 media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_v4l2_open()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2019-1549 Fork Protection
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31617 usb: gadget: f_ncm: validate minimum block_len in ncm_unwrap_ntb()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31638 rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41254
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2017-3735
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31596 ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31566 drm/amdgpu: Fix fence put before wait in amdgpu_amdkfd_submit_ib
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31675 net/sched: sch_netem: fix out-of-bounds access in packet corruption
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31637 rxrpc: reject undecryptable rxkad response tickets
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31682 bridge: br_nd_send: linearize skb before parsing ND options
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31570 can: gw: fix OOB heap access in cgw_csum_crc8_rel()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31674 netfilter: ip6t_rt: reject oversized addrnr in rt_mt6_check()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31624 HID: core: clamp report_size in s32ton() to avoid undefined shift
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31679 openvswitch: validate MPLS set/set_masked payload length
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com