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The latest Software Supply Chain coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Azure Linux Is Vulnerable to CVE-2024-39908. Here’s Why You Can’t Stop Scanning Yet.
Microsoft yesterday confirmed its Azure Linux distribution contains the vulnerable REXML Ruby library, opening the door to denial-of-service attacks tracked as CVE-2024-39908. The advisory provides a...
Azure Linux Attestation for CVE-2025-38213: Scope, Limitations & Security Implications
Microsoft's recent attestation regarding CVE-2025-38213 and its Azure Linux offerings has generated significant discussion in the security community, highlighting both the company's transparency...
A Tiny Node.js Library’s ReDoS Flaw Could Let Attackers Crash Your Server Remotely – Here’s the Patch
A single crafty HTTP request can knock your Node.js server offline, and the culprit is a regular expression tucked inside a library you might not even know you’re using. In January 2023, security...
CVE-2024-29180: The webpack Flaw That Puts Your Development Server at Risk, and What Microsoft’s Advisory Leaves Out
On March 11, 2024, a path‑traversal vulnerability in the popular Node.js package webpack‑dev‑middleware was made public under CVE‑2024‑29180. The flaw lets an attacker read arbitrary files...
CVE-2025-37992: Microsoft's Azure Linux Attestation Sparks Software Supply Chain Debate
Microsoft's recent security advisory about CVE-2025-37992 has ignited significant discussion in the cybersecurity community, not just about the vulnerability itself, but about how large technology...
Microsoft Rings Alarm on Azure Linux Kernel Flaw CVE-2025-37875—Your WSL Machine Could Be Next
Microsoft has confirmed that its Azure Linux distribution is potentially vulnerable to a recently disclosed kernel bug, but the carefully worded advisory stops short of clearing other Microsoft...
Azure Linux Attestation: Microsoft's Security Guarantee Explained
Microsoft's recent security advisory regarding Azure Linux has sparked significant discussion in the enterprise security community, revealing important nuances about how cloud providers communicate...
Azure Linux Undici CVE-2024-30260: Microsoft's Attestation Explained & Security Implications
Microsoft's recent public advisory naming Azure Linux as including the Undici library affected by CVE-2024-30260 has generated significant discussion in the security community, particularly regarding...
Microsoft Flags Years-Old zlib Pointer Bug (CVE-2016-9840) That Can Crash Windows Apps
Microsoft’s security team has formally raised the alarm on CVE-2016-9840, a pointer arithmetic bug in the ubiquitous zlib compression library that can be triggered by maliciously crafted data,...
Microsoft's VEX Attestations: Azure Linux First, But Other Products May Be Vulnerable
Microsoft's recent advisory regarding a specific CVE affecting Azure Linux has sparked important discussions about software supply chain transparency and vulnerability management. The company's...
Microsoft Confirms Azure Linux Affected by Go Crypto Bug CVE-2024-45341 – What You Need to Check Now
Microsoft has confirmed that its Azure Linux distribution is vulnerable to a newly disclosed flaw in the Go programming language’s standard library, tracked as CVE-2024-45341. The bug, first...
Critical libpng Vulnerability CVE-2025-66293 Patched: What Windows Users Need to Know
The libpng development team has released an urgent security patch addressing a high-severity vulnerability that could affect millions of Windows systems and applications. CVE-2025-66293, an...