SECURITY RESEARCH

NSA / GHIDRA

Denial of service in a widely used reverse-engineering platform

A normally executable PE32+ file could drive Ghidra's x64 chained-unwind parser into uncontrolled recursion, exhausting the Java stack during import.

Impact
Availability / DoS
Severity
Moderate · CVSS 5.5
Resolution
Patched in 12.1.4
Credit
8damon
Read GHSA-vxmq-6v38-hgf6
OPENEDR

Two SYSTEM LPEs and three local denial-of-service findings

Five runtime-validated vulnerabilities across privileged service trust, RPC command execution, kernel-monitor control, nonpaged-pool pressure, and telemetry controls.

Privilege impact
2 × SYSTEM LPE
Availability impact
3 × local DoS
Evidence
PoCs, reports, hashes, event logs
X64DBG

Long UTF-8 mapped filename crash

A UTF-16 mapped path could expand beyond a fixed destination after UTF-8 conversion, causing an invalid-argument fast fail. The submitted fix bounds and terminates the copy.

Impact
Debugger termination / DoS
Artifact
Source fix and reproduction
View pull request
MICROSOFT

CVE-2026-88071 / Windows Hyper-V elevation of privilege

A confirmed CWE-415 double free allows an authorized local attacker with low privileges to gain SYSTEM. Microsoft rates the issue Important at CVSS 3.1 7.8 and released official fixes on October 14, 2026.

Microsoft Security Response Center
INTEL

Kernel memory-safety research

Three distinct local denial-of-service vulnerabilities caused by kernel memory-safety faults in a Windows networking component.

IDA

Decoder and overlapping-instruction edge cases

Instruction-decoder inconsistencies and analysis seams around overlapping instruction streams.

MANDIANT FLOSS

Code-execution and parser robustness findings

Parser failures while processing adversarial binaries, including a code-execution vulnerability.

TINYINST

Dynamic binary instrumentation security findings

BINARY NINJA

Loader robustness and denial of service

Loader bugs exercised through malformed binary input, including denial-of-service behavior.