Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-05-01
Articles for the IT Professional. Each day we look at roughly 100 sites for Windows articles and bring them here.
It Was Spelled In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony.
James Comey is not exactly someone we’ve ever been a fan of on Techdirt. He was a terrible FBI director in so many ways. We’ve spent years criticizing the man — for his crusade against encryption, his...
Techdirt
Apr 29, 2026 - techdirt.com
Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.2.0
This post announces the General Availability of Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.2.0, with new Windows resources, Bicep gRPC integration, WhatIf support, expression language improvements...
PowerShell Team
Apr 29, 2026 - devblogs.microsoft.com
"Halo Infinite was intended to act as a central hub”: I’m digging into the alleged 343 roadmap and how ambitious its original plans for the franchise really were
A new report claims Halo Infinite was originally planned as a long term platform with a sequel, new environments, and expanded content, but internal challenges and staffing issues may have limited its...
Latest from Windows Central
Apr 29, 2026 - windowscentral.com
OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"
Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."
Ars Technica - All content
Apr 29, 2026 - arstechnica.com
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack
Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information ...
The Register
Apr 29, 2026 - go.theregister.com
Copilot agentic AI in Outlook: automating inbox and calendar management
Microsoft announced agentic features for Copilot in Outlook, expanding from single-task assistance to continuous, multi-step automation of email and calendar work. These features let Copilot act indep...
4sysops
Apr 29, 2026 - 4sysops.com
AI Finds 38 Security Flaws in Electronic Health Record Platform
Flaws in OpenEMR's platform — used by more than 100,000 healthcare providers — enabled database compromise, remote code execution, and data theft.
darkreading
Apr 29, 2026 - darkreading.com
Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to Deliver Phishing Emails
Robinhood fixed an account-creation flaw that hackers abused to send convincing phishing emails from its own system to some users over the weekend. The post Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to D...
TechRepublic
Apr 29, 2026 - techrepublic.com
The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall
Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already...
VentureBeat
Apr 29, 2026 - venturebeat.com
Reverse Engineering With AI Unearths High-Severity GitHub Bug
Wiz used an AI reverse-engineering tool to pinpoint a vulnerability that previously would have been too costly and time-consuming to undertake.
darkreading
Apr 29, 2026 - darkreading.com
Rumored Apple Vision Pro team break-up isn't a death knell for the product
A new rumor suggests Apple Vision Pro hardware may be dead, but the dissolution of a team doesn't necessarily mean that pipeline is dead. If anything, it's business as usual.Apple Vision Pro isn't dea...
AppleInsider News
Apr 29, 2026 - appleinsider.com
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.
$1 submitted by /u/Haniro
Reddit : Sysadmin
Apr 29, 2026 - reddit.com
Intel admits Wi-Fi and Bluetooth conflicts on Windows 11, rolls out fixes with April 2026 driver update
Intel has confirmed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth conflicts in Windows 11, particularly when the two connections compete for the same wireless channel. The post Intel admits Wi-Fi and Bluetooth conflicts on Win...
Windows Latest
Apr 29, 2026 - windowslatest.com
Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedrock platfor...
VentureBeat
Apr 29, 2026 - venturebeat.com
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability ari...
The Register
Apr 30, 2026 - go.theregister.com
Microsoft Confirms Windows Flaw Is Being Exploited After Incomplete Patch
Microsoft confirmed a Windows zero-click flaw tied to an incomplete patch is being exploited, putting credentials at risk for unpatched users. The post Microsoft Confirms Windows Flaw Is Being Exploit...
TechRepublic
Apr 30, 2026 - techrepublic.com
Satya Nadella admits Microsoft needs to “win back” Windows 11 fans, improve performance for low RAM PCs
CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed that Microsoft wants to "win back" Windows fans by focusing on fundamentals. The post Satya Nadella admits Microsoft needs to “win back” Windows 11 fans, improve perfor...
Windows Latest
Apr 30, 2026 - windowslatest.com
CVE-2026-31607 usbip: validate number_of_packets in usbip_pack_ret_submit()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31590 KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31618 fbdev: tdfxfb: avoid divide-by-zero on FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 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 30, 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 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31524 HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31486 hwmon: (pmbus/core) Protect regulator operations with mutex
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31487 spi: use generic driver_override infrastructure
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31615 usb: gadget: renesas_usb3: validate endpoint index in standard request handlers
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31496 netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: skip expectations in other netns via proc
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31515 af_key: validate families in pfkey_send_migrate()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31516 xfrm: prevent policy_hthresh.work from racing with netns teardown
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31623 net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31504 net: fix fanout UAF in packet_release() via NETDEV_UP race
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31523 nvme-pci: ensure we're polling a polled queue
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31497 Bluetooth: btusb: clamp SCO altsetting table indices
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31489 spi: meson-spicc: Fix double-put in remove path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31510 Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref on l2cap_sock_ready_cb
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31588 KVM: x86: Use scratch field in MMIO fragment to hold small write values
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31518 esp: fix skb leak with espintcp and async crypto
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 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 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31586 mm: blk-cgroup: fix use-after-free in cgwb_release_workfn()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31508 net: openvswitch: Avoid releasing netdev before teardown completes
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31540 drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31545 NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31519 btrfs: set BTRFS_ROOT_ORPHAN_CLEANUP during subvol create
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31546 net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31622 NFC: digital: Bounds check NFC-A cascade depth in SDD response handler
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-6238 Buffer overread in ns_printrrf with corrupted RDATA field
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31485 spi: spi-fsl-lpspi: fix teardown order issue (UAF)
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31499 Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix deadlock in l2cap_conn_del()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31592 KVM: SEV: Protect *all* of sev_mem_enc_register_region() with kvm->lock
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31495 netfilter: ctnetlink: use netlink policy range checks
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-6357 pip self-update functionality can import newly installed modules after wheel installation
Information published.
MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2025-48431 Apache Thrift: Specially crafted input can crash a c_glib Thrift server with invalid pointer error.
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31483 s390/syscalls: Add spectre boundary for syscall dispatch table
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31619 ALSA: fireworks: bound device-supplied status before string array lookup
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41602 Apache Thrift: Go TFramedTransport uint32 overflow
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41603 Apache Thrift: Java TSSLTransportFactory hostname verification
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31507 net/smc: fix double-free of smc_spd_priv when tee() duplicates splice pipe buffer
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41604 Apache Thrift: Swift Range crash in skip()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31585 media: vidtv: fix nfeeds state corruption on start_streaming failure
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41605 Apache Thrift: Swift Compact Protocol integer overflow
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31500 Bluetooth: btintel: serialize btintel_hw_error() with hci_req_sync_lock
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41606 Apache Thrift: c_glib dispatch stack overflow
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41607 Apache Thrift: C++ JSON OOB read
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31522 HID: magicmouse: avoid memory leak in magicmouse_report_fixup()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-41636 Apache Thrift: Node.js skip() recursion
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-25541 Bytes is vulnerable to integer overflow in BytesMut::reserve
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31509 nfc: nci: fix circular locking dependency in nci_close_device
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31503 udp: Fix wildcard bind conflict check when using hash2
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31494 net: macb: use the current queue number for stats
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31493 RDMA/efa: Fix use of completion ctx after free
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31521 module: Fix kernel panic when a symbol st_shndx is out of bounds
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31531 ipv4: nexthop: allocate skb dynamically in rtm_get_nexthop()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5447 Heap buffer overflow in CertFromX509() via AuthorityKeyIdentifier
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31537 smb: server: make use of smbdirect_socket.send_io.bcredits
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5772 MatchDomainName 1-Byte Stack Buffer Over-Read in Hostname Validation
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5460 Heap Use-After-Free in PQC Hybrid KeyShare Error Cleanup in wolfSSL TLS 1.3
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-21620 TFTP Path Traversal
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5446 wolfSSL ARIA-GCM TLS 1.2/DTLS 1.2 GCM nonce reuse
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-1502 HTTP client proxy tunnel headers not validated for CR/LF
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-34481 Apache Log4j JSON Template Layout: Improper serialization of non-finite floating-point values in JsonTemplateLayout
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2025-69648
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 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 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-34479 Apache Log4j 1 to Log4j 2 bridge: Silent log event loss in Log4j1XmlLayout due to unescaped XML 1.0 forbidden characters
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-32776
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31616 usb: gadget: f_phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in pn_rx_complete()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-34480 Apache Log4j Core: Silent log event loss in XmlLayout due to unescaped XML 1.0 forbidden characters
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-32777
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5448 1-2 Byte Buffer Overflow in wolfSSL_X509_notAfter/notBefore
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-5392 wolfSSL heap OOB read in PKCS7 SignedData streaming
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-32778
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31629 nfc: llcp: add missing return after LLCP_CLOSED checks
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31429 net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated skb head
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31669 mptcp: fix slab-use-after-free in __inet_lookup_established
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2024-41045 bpf: Defer work in bpf_timer_cancel_and_free
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31582 hwmon: (powerz) Fix use-after-free on USB disconnect
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-4395 Heap-based buffer overflow in wc_ecc_import_x963_ex KCAPI path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31527 driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-1005 Integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds access in sniffer AES-GCM/CCM/ARIA-GCM decrypt path
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-31576 media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()
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MSRC Security Update Guide
Apr 30, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com
CVE-2026-3229 Integer Overflow in Certificate Chain Allocation
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