Articles from April 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in April 2026
CVE-2026-31489: Critical Double-Put Bug in Meson SPI Controller Driver Patched
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Meson SPI controller driver (meson-spicc) has been assigned CVE-2026-31489. The flaw is a classic lifetime management bug — a double-put of a...
CVE-2026-31431: Linux Kernel Reverts In-Place AEAD Optimization Over Security Concerns
The Linux kernel has addressed a subtle but significant security vulnerability in the AF_ALG crypto subsystem, tracked as CVE-2026-31431. The flaw resides in the algif_aead interface, where an...
CVE-2026-31497: 5.5-score Linux btusb SCO audio bug patched for out-of-bounds read
CVE-2026-31497: A Small Bug with Big Implications for Linux Bluetooth A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem, CVE-2026-31497, has drawn attention for its...
Linux Kernel Fixes Decade-Old Bluetooth btusb Array-Bound Bug
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem, CVE-2026-31497, has been patched after residing in the codebase for over a decade. The flaw, which affects the btusb driver,...
AMD GPU Stability Fix Arrives After Kernel Developers Catch a Nasty Process Isolation Bug
AMD graphics hardware on Linux just got a small but critical patch that stops a timing bug from crashing your desktop or compute workloads. On April 22, 2026, the National Vulnerability Database...
AMDGPU Driver Flaw: How a Fast ID Recycle Can Make Your GPU Remember Dead Processes
Linux kernel developers have patched a subtle race condition in the AMDGPU driver that can cause a GPU to confuse process contexts after a program exits. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-31462, stems...
Linux Kernel Fixes Packet Fanout Race That Left a Dangling Pointer in Network Arrays
A subtle race condition in the Linux kernel can turn a routine network interface state change into a recipe for memory corruption. The bug, identified as CVE-2026-31504, affects the packet socket...
Microsoft Flags Linux Kernel Race Condition in AF_PACKET—Here’s What Windows Admins Must Do
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31504, can create a use-after-free condition in the AF_PACKET networking subsystem, leading to system crashes or potential memory...
CVE-2026-31458: The Linux Kernel Flaw That Crashes DAMON When Contexts Go Empty
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31458, can crash systems using the Data Access MONitoring (DAMON) subsystem when administrators shrink monitoring contexts to zero while the...
CVE-2026-31458: How Shrinking DAMON Contexts to Zero Can Crash Your Linux System
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Linux kernel can crash a running system when an administrator reduces the number of DAMON (Data Access MONitor) contexts to zero while the monitor is active....
Linux Patches bcmasp Driver Double-Free That Could Crash Wake-on-LAN Systems
The Linux kernel project has disclosed and patched CVE-2026-31506, a double-free bug in the bcmasp network driver that can corrupt kernel memory and trigger crashes during device teardown or...
Broadcom’s Linux bcmasp Driver Has a Double-Free Bug—Check If Your Servers Are at Risk
A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31506, exposes a double-free mistake in the bcmasp Ethernet driver’s Wake-on-LAN (WoL) interrupt cleanup path. Published on April 22, 2026,...