eBay has rejected GameStop's $56 billion acquisition bid after concluding that the proposal is neither credible nor attractive. The board cited eBay's strong standalone prospects and expressed confidence in its current management to deliver sustainable growth and shareholder value.
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NVD published two more high-severity CVE records for IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 on September 25: CVE-2026-85542 (CVSS 8.8), a command injection bug, and CVE-2026-85029 (CVSS 7.5), a path traversal flaw. IBM lists fix pack SqlGuard_12.0p233.
Microsoft Office Outlook has an integer overflow flaw, CVE-2026-100208, that could let an unauthorized attacker run code over a network. Microsoft scores it 7.5 (High), and an attack needs user interaction.
CISA added CVE-2026-87902, a WordPress Core remote file inclusion flaw, to its KEV catalog with a September 28 federal deadline. WordPress 7.1.2 fixes it, and the fix is backported to every branch back to 4.7.
CVE-2026-93306, published by NVD on September 25, lets an unauthenticated attacker on the management network crash the ASMI web server in IBM server firmware with a malformed HTTPS request. IBM rates it 7.1 (High) and has released fixed firmware for Power11, Power10 and Power9 systems.
NVD published two high-severity CVE records for IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 on September 25. CVE-2026-84884 (CVSS 7.5) covers REST service-account passwords stored in a reversible format, and CVE-2026-84862 (CVSS 7.2) is an insecure deserialization flaw that could allow code execution. IBM points customers to fix pack SqlGuard_12.0p233.
