[ALSA-2026:73429] Moderate: gawk security update
Type:
security
Severity:
moderate
Release date:
2026-09-30
Description:
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.
Updated packages listed below:
Architecture Package Checksum
aarch64 gawk-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm 6d1f321e6126573acd958d18faf3edda6c7bf10698104b85e93c4fb6c99560eb
aarch64 gawk-all-langpacks-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.aarch64.rpm bb22ed0287f42ca79f6fbc317f37376835e2ad983212e1f421b86e3a03f89d4c
ppc64le gawk-all-langpacks-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm 3fa0892bc5f176c819bf721ac3625e196b466e55044aa8ad6c5219909b5c653c
ppc64le gawk-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.ppc64le.rpm 71402c48c69406ae89a21ce3c92e677ecb8789debb5819c279680c36380ee1fb
s390x gawk-all-langpacks-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm 0c4ddf0cb2a9155adbe015e281de163345a4a5e66faea6029f829c086ccde3da
s390x gawk-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.s390x.rpm ae72d4edbcbf75e31f188c75a81136d0e019760424ab2d8f3dcc7dc7cd941c6d
x86_64 gawk-all-langpacks-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm 0b5a5afc89125796bcd210f4cc5fbc4368a9a96437e14104c57f1bc6ee788eac
x86_64 gawk-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64.rpm 92ac9afb81140d0986a51a90014dcca755870e83969f182cc50d2bf558341e1b
x86_64_v2 gawk-all-langpacks-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64_v2.rpm 3cff08accd1a136eb63df2141c4eab9ae3c6869ecd95a090f297ed0b68f50cd1
x86_64_v2 gawk-5.3.0-6.el10_2.1.x86_64_v2.rpm 6ff378987297211a421dbe562d83007bd581f7caa5828b5143e1858e7a1e6926
Notes:
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