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RLSA-2026:73512

Security Mirrored from RHSA-2026:73512
Issued at: 2026-09-30
Updated at: 2026-09-30

Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:73512, © 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 9 aarch64 Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le Rocky Linux 9 s390x Rocky Linux 9 x86_64

Fixes

2499655 2499657 2499658

CVEs

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

Affected packages

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - BaseOS

gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.src.rpm gawk-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm gawk-debuginfo-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm gawk-debugsource-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 aarch64 - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 ppc64le - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 s390x - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm

Rocky Linux 9 x86_64 - AppStream

gawk-all-langpacks-0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm