{"id":"RLSA-2026:73512","summary":"Moderate: gawk security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow (CVE-2026-40468)\n\n* gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service (CVE-2026-40553)\n\n* gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c (CVE-2026-40467)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-09-30T12:45:02.350739628Z","published":"2026-09-30T12:05:19.277561Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-40467","CVE-2026-40468","CVE-2026-40553"],"database_specific":{"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","source_advisory":"RHSA-2026:73512","license":"CC-BY-4.0"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:73512"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499655"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499657"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499658"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73512"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gawk","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gawk?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"BaseOS"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73512.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}