The Patching Friars' AlmanacA calendar of CVE saints

August 29

GreenSectionHoly card for greensection, generated with AI (Claude, Anthropic) for the Lunario dei Frati Patchatori.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 RW shared GreenSection SECTIO COMMUNIS
🤖 Image and text generated with AI

⬇ Download holy card: ·

☀ Commemorated today: The Miracle of the Duck Hunt (2023)

Embed on your site

Blessed GreenSection, Who Shared Too Much Memory

Patron of graphics drivers, shared memory sections, and zero-days published without warning.

Life

At the end of August 2026 a researcher signing as Nightmare Eclipse published GreenSection, a zero-day in NVIDIA's Windows graphics components. Several user-mode libraries shared a single memory section readable and writable by anyone, and that data was reused at runtime, causing an out-of-bounds write. The author said it did not immediately grant system privileges but could help cross from one user to another; others mostly observed crashes.

Prayer

O Blessed GreenSection, who leaves the same memory room open to all, let our drivers never trust shared data. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by updating NVIDIA drivers as soon as the fix ships and constraining untrusted processes.

A shared room, nobody's secrets.

Technical record

Disclosed on
August 29 2026
CVE
No CVE: blessed, not yet canonized by MITRE

Sources: git.projectnightcrawler.dev · github.com

Commemorated today

Also remembered today

Shortcuts: ← → to move, D day, W week, M month, T today.

📅 Add to your calendar

Saints:Google CalendarApple, Outlook and others (.ics)

Observances (feasts, scourges and miracles):Google CalendarApple, Outlook and others (.ics)

In Google Calendar you can also paste the URL in Settings → Add calendar → From URL. The first sync can take a few hours.