F5 has released a critical security patch addressing CVE-2026-42533, a severe heap overflow vulnerability in NGINX's regex mapping functionality. This flaw poses a dual threat: it can trigger denial of service attacks by crashing worker processes, and under certain deployment configurations, may potentially lead to remote code execution. Organizations running affected NGINX versions are urged to apply updates immediately to prevent exploitation.

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