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: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c

A flaw was found in gawk. A Use After Free vulnerability exists in the dogetlineredir routine within the io.c program file. This vulnerability can be triggered by an attacker, potentially leading to a system crash and causing a Denial of Service DoS...

gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to integer overflow

A flaw was found in gawk. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the dosub routine, which could allow an attacker to overwrite internal program data. This can lead to a denial of service DoS by causing the gawk program to crash. This issue affects 32-bit builds of gawk...

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...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update

An update for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs is now available. This update includes the following RPMs: gawk: gawk-5.4.1-1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 gawk-all-langpacks-5.4.1-1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 gawk-devel-5.4.1-1.hum1 aarch64, x8664 gawk-doc-5.4.1-1.hum1 noarch gawk-5.4.1-1.hum1.src src Security Fixes:...

gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow

A flaw was found in gawk. An integer overflow vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause memory exhaustion, leading to a denial of service. This flaw may also enable an attacker to corrupt gawk's internal memory, potentially leading to system instability...

CVE-2026-40468

A flaw was found in gawk. An integer overflow vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause memory exhaustion, leading to a denial of service. This flaw may also enable an attacker to corrupt gawk's internal memory, potentially leading to system instability. Mitigation Do not execute...

CVE-2026-40467

A flaw was found in gawk. A Use After Free vulnerability exists in the dogetlineredir routine within the io.c program file. This vulnerability can be triggered by an attacker, potentially leading to a system crash and causing a Denial of Service DoS. Mitigation To mitigate this issue, users shoul...

Photon OS 5.0: Gawk PHSA-2026-5.0-0933

An update of the gawk package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2026-5.0-0933. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Critical Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2026-5.0-0933

Updates of 'gawk' packages of Photon OS have been released...

JLSEC-2026-787 Integer overflow in gawk's `do_sub()` can cause buffer overflow and denial of service

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk dosub routine. This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects 32-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

JLSEC-2026-786 Integer overflow in gawk's `builtin.c` can cause buffer overflow and denial of service

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

JLSEC-2026-785 Use after free vulnerability in gawk 5.4.0 and earlier

Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of gawk dogetlineredir routine. This issue may lead to a crash. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below...

OESA-2026-3164 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...

OESA-2026-3163 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...

OESA-2026-3161 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 SLES12 Security Update : gawk (SUSE-SU-2026:3211-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:3211-1 advisory. This update for gawk fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-40468: integer overflow in the builtin.c program file bsc1271352. Tenable has extracted the...

openSUSE 16 Security Update : gawk (openSUSE-SU-2026:21393-1)

The remote openSUSE 16 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21393-1 advisory. - CVE-2026-40467: use-after-free vulnerability within the dogetlineredir routine could lead to a program crash bsc1271351. - CVE-2026-40468:...

SUSE-SU-2026:3211-1 Security update for gawk

This update for gawk fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-40468: integer overflow in the builtin.c program file bsc1271352...

Security update for gawk

This update for gawk fixes the following issue: CVE-2026-40468: integer overflow in the builtin.c program file bsc1271352. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST onlineupdate or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command...