Security Advisory

CVE-2026-40468

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-07-13 12:07:54

Last updated 2026-07-13 13:01:29

Assigner CERT-PL

CVSS score 2.1

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

← Browse all CVEs View on cve.org ↗