Red Hat Security Advisory: gawk security update

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      "modified": "2026-10-15T10:26:26Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "CVE-2026-40467",
        "CVE-2026-40468"
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      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73511",
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499655",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499658",
        "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_73511.json",
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40467",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40467",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40467",
        "https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467",
        "https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=a2d18c74109e41bec29a23098eba2e00057286d8",
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40468",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40468",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40468",
        "https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 331213,
  "published_at": "2026-10-03T10:16:44+00:00"
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