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CVE-2026-40553

Stack-based buffer overflow in gawk PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk (ftype() routine). This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
GNU / gawkaffected 0 through 5.4.0

CWE

CWE-121

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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