Moderate: gawk security update
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.
ALSA-2026:73511
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:ALSA-2026:73511
gawk
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 4.2.1-5.el8_10
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.2.1-5.el8_10"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "gawk",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/almalinux/gawk",
"ecosystem": "AlmaLinux:8"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2026:73511.json"
}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #62475 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date