Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
CVE-2019-10638: Microsoft's Nuanced Disclosure Model Reshapes Azure Linux Security Policy
Microsoft's recent security advisory regarding CVE-2019-10638 has sparked significant discussion in the cybersecurity community, particularly around how large technology companies handle open source...
CVE-2023-0664: Windows QEMU Guest Agent Vulnerability Analysis & Security Fixes
A critical security vulnerability in the QEMU Guest Agent for Windows, tracked as CVE-2023-0664, has exposed virtualized Windows environments to significant local privilege escalation risks. This...
Microsoft 365 Copilot App Quietly Starts Auto-Uploading Local Files to OneDrive on Mobile
Microsoft has changed the default behaviour of its Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app so that tapping a local document attachment no longer simply opens it. Instead, the app uploads the file to...
Brad Smith's AI Warning: Why China's Subsidies Matter for Every Windows User
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president and vice chair, went public with an unusually direct warning: U.S. tech companies are up against systemic state support that distorts the AI market. In a CNBC...
Podman’s TOCTOU Race Hits Azure Linux: Microsoft’s Fix, Mitigations, and What Admins Must Do Now
A patched-but-still-lurking flaw in Podman, the popular daemonless container engine, has now been formally linked to Microsoft’s own Azure Linux distribution. The vulnerability—a...
Patch Now: QEMU Bug Lets Malicious VMs Crash Host Process, Microsoft Azure Linux Affected
A vulnerability in the QEMU virtualization platform tracked as CVE-2023-0330 allows an attacker with code execution inside a virtual machine to crash the host process, potentially taking down all VMs...
Unpatched DNS Bug Haunts Windows Apps — Here’s How to Protect Your PC from CVE-2022-4904
{ "title": "Unpatched DNS Bug Haunts Windows Apps — Here’s How to Protect Your PC from CVE-2022-4904", "content": "A dormant memory corruption flaw in a core internet library is still lurking...
CVE-2023-27537: Patch Your Windows Apps to Stop This libcurl Double-Free Bug
A race condition in libcurl, the omnipresent network library, can crash Windows applications that share HSTS data between threads, and the fix requires more than just waiting for Windows Update —...
The Azure Linux CVE-2023-28155 Warning Is Just the Start — Check Your Node.js Dependencies Now
Microsoft has confirmed that its Azure Linux distribution contains the widely used but deprecated request Node.js library, making it potentially vulnerable to a server-side request forgery (SSRF)...
CVE-2023-27536: libcurl GSSAPI Delegation Flaw - Security Analysis & Windows Impact
A subtle but significant security vulnerability in libcurl, tracked as CVE-2023-27536, has exposed a critical connection-reuse flaw that could allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms in...
CVE-2023-27534: How Curl's SFTP Tilde Vulnerability Exposed Systems and Was Patched
When a single character — the humble tilde (~) — is handled incorrectly in software, the result can be more than just a parsing glitch: it can be a pathway out of intended restrictions and into...
CVE-2022-4899: How an Empty String Bug in Zstd CLI Created a Critical Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
A seemingly trivial programming oversight in the Zstandard (zstd) compression utility has exposed a critical buffer overrun vulnerability that could crash systems or potentially enable remote code...