Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2026 Security Update Review
2026-08-12T08:51:44Z•a005cd006f7801ee676fea1b643ea3ea14045ca13100539304806f4c9fbf0fd5
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What happened
Qualys security intelligence covering August 2026 Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday updates, Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, Linux kernel XFS local privilege escalation CVE-2026-64600, and emerging cloud, AI, serverless, and exposure-management risks. The most directly actionable item is CVE-2026-64600, which allows a local unprivileged attacker to exploit an XFS copy-on-write race condition to overwrite protected files and obtain root privileges, including on systems with SELinux enforcing. The Microsoft update reportedly fixes 421 vulnerabilities, including three zero-days—one of
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