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