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RLSA-2026:73429

Security Mirrored from RHSA-2026:73429
Issued at: 2026-09-30
Updated at: 2026-09-30

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:73429, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.

Synopsis

Moderate: gawk security update



Description

The gawk packages contain the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs.

Security Fix(es):

* gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow (CVE-2026-40468)

* gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service (CVE-2026-40553)

* gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c (CVE-2026-40467)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.



Affected products

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le Rocky Linux 10 riscv64 Rocky Linux 10 s390x Rocky Linux 10 x86_64

Fixes

2499655 2499657 2499658

CVEs

CVE-2026-40467 CVE-2026-40468 CVE-2026-40553

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 ppc64le - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 riscv64 - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.src.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.src.rpm gawk-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 x86_64 - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 aarch64 - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 10 s390x - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm