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Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday set a record: ~200 CVEs, the biggest list ever. We diffed ~130 of the patched binaries. Even at 200 CVEs, the advisories don't describe everything that changed. Here's what the diffs show that the CVE text doesn't 🧵
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The slickest catch: one feature flag rerouted Kerberos PAC decoding to a new path across THREE binaries - LSASS, Credential Guard (LsaIso), the Kerberos client lib. Kerberos & LSASS did get CVEs this month. The advisories just don't show this cross-binary shape.
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The lesson: a record ~200 CVEs still isn't the whole picture. The binary diffs carry hardening the advisories never spell out. We read them so you don't have to. 🦅 PatchHawk #PatchTuesday #infosec
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7-Zip 26.01's changelog lists exactly ONE security fix. We diffed the source, 26.00 -> 26.01. It silently shipped 14 MORE. "Some bugs were fixed" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. 🧵
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Takeaway: treat 26.01 as a security release, not a point fix. Upgrade from 26.00 even if you think the NTFS CVE doesn't touch you, because 14 more code paths got safer and the changelog won't say so. 🦅 PatchHawk #7zip #infosec
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Linux mainline quietly shipped a fix for a remote kernel heap overflow in the iSCSI target. It fires during login, before the CHAP password is ever checked. No CVE. The commit just says "validate CHAP_R length before base64 decode." Only watch CVE feeds? You missed it. 🧵
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These are mainline -rc fixes: Cc: stable, no CVE yet by design. CVEs land later, on backport. We read the merge graph so you see them now, not after the feed catches up. 🦅 PatchHawk #LinuxKernel #infosec
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