CVE-2026-40553Stack-based buffer overflow in gawk

Descripción

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.

Datos: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Se publican tal como los indican las fuentes, en inglés.

Productos y versiones afectados

Referencias y parches

• https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=cca0366144336b49aaa7d5d949966ce8e2c70843 patchPatch
• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467 third-party-advisoryThird Party Advisory