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-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm |
97cb04240c233f3b4eb26fbb566e758b4c1de415a4cbe81111a231ea0218cb77 |
| aarch64 |
gawk-all-langpacks-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.aarch64.rpm |
e6782cd16b63d0b5f0cbc148af2fc5660e6da403c89562f68f401fc21039b8fb |
| ppc64le |
gawk-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm |
058ac8dd7014a058ed3b8cf09fa3b1dd6a44d06b5a3847cbeb6c7a6401d55e96 |
| ppc64le |
gawk-all-langpacks-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.ppc64le.rpm |
4e09269927fda3cd066411357e612139c4da467ca2920392095656be59bb6998 |
| s390x |
gawk-all-langpacks-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm |
1d8694c189ccf953216410a98144528378e1949118b0fa7923c5f77f2d65cb1e |
| s390x |
gawk-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.s390x.rpm |
e997ea5ce2c12ca3cc9c598f3bd5dc77d25479fee0361e39bae8fda9eee76bcb |
| x86_64 |
gawk-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm |
b653a21cf634a7570ada45863206dd1e4d3c13ae0e58f62f8d5cc5a7cf9d0ebe |
| x86_64 |
gawk-all-langpacks-5.1.0-6.el9_8.1.x86_64.rpm |
c6bbea04452d636abc45ad7f1da1043ec9e66ee9023ab8295eb0178fb2ecb1f4 |
