RLSA-2026:73429

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Source

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:73429

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73429.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:73429

Upstream

CVE (3)

CVE-2026-40467
CVE-2026-40468
CVE-2026-40553

Published

2026-09-30T12:10:38Z

Modified

2026-09-30T12:45:02Z

Severity

6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

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.

Security Fix(es):

gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow (CVE-2026-40468)
gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service (CVE-2026-40553)
gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c (CVE-2026-40467)

For 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.

Database specific

{
    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:73429"
}

References

Credits

- Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
- Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:10 / gawk

Package

Name: gawk
Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gawk?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type

ECOSYSTEM

Events

Introduced

Fixed

0:5.3.0-6.el10_2.1

Database specific

Show details

{
    "yum_repository":  "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73429.json"