RLSA-2026:73511

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Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:73511
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73511.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:73511
Upstream
CVE (2)
  • CVE-2026-40467
  • CVE-2026-40468
Published
2026-10-02T12:00:58Z
Modified
2026-10-02T12:30:03Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L 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: 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 
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    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:73511"
}
References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / gawk

Package

Name
gawk
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gawk?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:4.2.1-5.el8_10
Database specific
Show details 
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    "yum_repository":  "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:73511.json"