Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
Linux kernel patch fixes memory leak and infinite loop in Bluetooth L2CAP ERTM
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem, CVE-2026-31498, has been addressed with a patch that resolves two intertwined issues: a memory leak and an infinite loop...
CVE-2026-31498: Linux Bluetooth L2CAP ERTM Bugs Could Crash Your System
A pair of memory safety flaws in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem have been assigned CVE-2026-31498, and they're not your typical remote code execution nightmares. Instead, these are...
CVE-2026-31503: Linux Kernel UDP Wildcard Bind Bypass Could Let Attackers Hijack Ports
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31503, exposes a subtle but dangerous flaw in UDP port binding logic. The bug allows a socket to bind to a wildcard address (0.0.0.0)...
CVE-2026-31503: Linux Kernel UDP Wildcard Bind Conflict Misses hash2 Threshold
Linux systems are facing a new networking vulnerability that underscores how subtle logic errors can be just as dangerous as memory corruption. Tracked as CVE-2026-31503, this kernel bug affects UDP...
A Single Corrupted File Used to Crash Linux Servers — This ext4 Patch Stops That
A corrupted file on a Linux server no longer has to mean a full system crash. The Linux kernel has patched a flaw in the ext4 filesystem that could turn a damaged piece of inline data into an...
Linux Kernel Fix Ends ext4 Panic on Corrupted Files, Keeping Systems Alive
On April 22, 2026, the Linux kernel community published a fix for CVE-2026-31451, a vulnerability in the ext4 filesystem that could panic a system when encountering a corrupted file. The patch, which...
Microsoft Advisory for Linux CVE-2026-31509: NFC Deadlock Fix You Can’t Ignore
Microsoft rang the bell on April 22, 2026, for a Linux kernel vulnerability that at first glance appears arcane: a deadlock in the NFC (Near Field Communication) device shutdown path. Designated...
CVE-2026-31447: Linux ext4 Mount Hardening Blocks Risky Bigalloc Layouts—What Windows Users Need to Know
The Linux kernel project has disclosed a new mount-time validation flaw in the ext4 filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-31447 and syndicated through Microsoft’s Security Response Center on April 22,...
ext4 Now Refuses to Mount Risky Bigalloc Drives: What You Need to Know About CVE-2026-31447
On April 22, 2026, the National Vulnerability Database dropped CVE-2026-31447, a security update that forces the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem to reject a specific, dangerous configuration. The fix...
CVE-2026-31500: Linux Intel Bluetooth Bug Triggers Kernel Crashes—And Microsoft Has an Advisory for It
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s Intel Bluetooth driver can crash systems or enable memory corruption attacks, with Microsoft quietly listing the flaw in its own security...
Critical Linux Bluetooth Bug Could Crash Your Laptop During Shutdown—Here’s the Fix
A race condition in the Linux kernel’s Intel Bluetooth driver can corrupt memory and crash your system during shutdown or error recovery. Microsoft has now listed the flaw, tracked as...
CVE-2026-31507: Linux Kernel SMC Splice Panic – Patch Now for Azure and WSL
Linux administrators were met with an urgent patch note this week as a new kernel vulnerability surfaced that can bring down servers with a simple misuse of two classic Unix system commands. The...