Issued at: 2026-10-02
Updated at: 2026-10-02
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:73511, © 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: 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.