CVE-2026-40468 (GCVE-0-2026-40468)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-13 12:07
Modified
2026-07-13 13:01
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Summary
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.
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