CVE-2026-40469

Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk (do_sub() routine). This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects 32-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

CVSS 4.0

5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-190

Published

2026-07-13

Modified

2026-10-24

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• fossies:gawk

References

• https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467
• https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=ae1b2d508f46913269a9e62aceda3636afe8147b

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