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PHP Rushes Emergency Patches for High-Severity Vulnerabilities

The PHP project has rushed out an emergency release to fix two critical remote-code-execution flaws, with early attacks already emerging, prompting an urgent call to update to patched versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. This swift action aims to prevent exploitation of the vulnerabilities, dubbed "php2shell," which have been rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale.

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Citrix Disrupts Zero-Day Attacks on NetScaler with Emergency Patches

Citrix has rolled out emergency patches to shield NetScaler from zero-day attacks that can cause Denial of Service chaos, and you should update ASAP to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. The newly discovered vulnerability, CVE-2026-88779, has already been exploited in targeted attacks, earning a scary CVSS score of 8.7.

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Broadcom Disrupts VMware with Emergency Patches for Critical Flaws

Broadcom has just released emergency security patches to tackle critical flaws in VMware's vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion - and it's urging admins to act fast, treating affected systems as immediately vulnerable. Three critical vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310, and CVE-2026-47876, are among the five patched across these products and others that contain vCenter or ESX.

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