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: 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-4.2.1-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm |
edb6a4c66c622ce12b0ee9ca32133a58e47dc05e6bed2fc978b9d0846074b2cd |
| ppc64le |
gawk-4.2.1-5.el8_10.ppc64le.rpm |
fbe004a8172ddb6942ea1231c923121d2ca811e6c6a223e4c9dbf757c4d5c388 |
| s390x |
gawk-4.2.1-5.el8_10.s390x.rpm |
b7fbc0932d41cc95bca009614b8e4b377c55744ce154beb529bcf76152533a76 |
| x86_64 |
gawk-4.2.1-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm |
3c314e94252e405a1322f1ee379ae829d6d5fd004c8607da0e4ec6990860972e |
