EULEROS-SA-2026-3736

Summary:

An update for gawk is now available for EulerOS V2.0SP10

EulerOS Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical.A Common Vunlnerability Scoring System(CVSS)base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVElink(s) in the References section.General:

The gawk package contains the GNU version of AWK text processing utility. AWK is a programming language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool. The gawk utility can be used to do quick and easy text pattern matching, extracting or reformatting. It is considered to be a standard Linux tool for text processing.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2026-40468)

Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of gawk (do_getline_redir() routine). This issue may lead to a crash. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.(CVE-2026-40467)

Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program file of gawk (ftype() routine). This issue could be used to crash the program and potentially to achieve code execution, although the latter has not been confirmed to be feasible. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.(CVE-2026-40553)Legal Disclaimer:

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