CVE-2026-40553

A flaw was found in gawk. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ftype routine, located in the extension/readdir.c program file. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. It may also potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, thou...

gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service

A flaw was found in gawk. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ftype routine, located in the extension/readdir.c program file. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to crash the program, resulting in a denial of service. It may also potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, thou...

JLSEC-2026-788 Buffer overflow in gawk's `readdir.c` can cause denial of service and possible code execution

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

OESA-2026-3162 gawk security update

The gawk package is the GNU implementation of awk. The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code. Security Fixes: Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of...

SUSE CVE-2026-40553

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40553

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

CVE-2026-40553 Stack-based buffer overflow in gawk

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

CVE-2026-40553

CVE-2026-40553 affects GNU awk (gawk); a buffer/stack-based overflow in the extension/readdir.c ftype() routine can crash the process and, per the CVE description, potentially enable code execution, though this has not been confirmed. Vulnerable as of version 5.4.0 and earlier. No remediation det...

CVE-2026-40553

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

CVE-2026-40553

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk ftype routine. This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

PT-2026-57815

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gawk versions 5.4.0 and earlier Description A buffer overflow occurs in the ftype routine within the extension/readdir.c file. This flaw can lead to a program crash and potentially allow for arbitrary code execution. Recommendations Update gaw...