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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 14, 2026

Debian gawk: Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gaw…

CVE-2026-40468

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.

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