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CVE-2026-40469

Heap buffer overflow in gawk PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
GNU / gawkaffected 0 through 5.4.0

CWE

CWE-190

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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