Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 14, 2026
Debian gawk: Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in "extension/readdir.c" program fi…
CVE-2026-40553
Description
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.
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