FKIE_CVE-2026-40469

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-13 13:16 - Updated: 2026-07-14 01:11
Severity
9.1 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk (do_sub() routine). This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects 32-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.
References
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467Third Party Advisory
cvd@cert.plhttps://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=ae1b2d508f46913269a9e62aceda3636afe8147bPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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