OESA-2026-3160 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...

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...