Microsoft patches some very important vulnerabilities in August’s patch Tuesday

In the August 2025 patch Tuesday round Microsoft fixed a total of 111 Microsoft vulnerabilities. A few of them are very important for people to apply. Even if you’re not a tech expert, keeping your Windows system up to date is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect yourself from...

Patch Tuesday - August 2025

Microsoft is addressing 111 vulnerabilities this August 2025 Patch Tuesday, a volume which is around the recent average. In a neat parallel with last month, Microsoft is aware of public disclosure for a single one of the vulnerabilities published today, and claims no evidence of in-the-wild...

CVE-2025-38488

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix use-after-free in cryptmessage when using async crypto The CVE-2024-50047 fix removed asynchronous crypto handling from cryptmessage, assuming all crypto operations are synchronous. However, when hardware crypto...