CVE-2026-40468

{
  "id": "CVE-2026-40468",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-07-13T13:16:36.907",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T22:10:00.210",
  "vulnStatus": "Analyzed",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in \"builtin.c\" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Vulnerabilidad de desbordamiento de entero ha sido encontrada en el archivo de programa ’builtin.c’ de gawk. Este problema puede llevar al agotamiento de la memoria en el sistema operativo anfitrión y podría ser usado para sobrescribir metadatos y objetos del heap de gawk con bytes controlados por el atacante. Afecta a gawk en las versiones 5.4.0 e inferiores."
    }
  ],
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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          "vendor": "GNU",
          "product": "gawk",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "programFiles": [
            "builtin.c"
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467",
      "source": "[email protected]",
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        "Third Party Advisory"
      ]
    },
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      "url": "https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7",
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