Advisories » MGASA-2026-0427

Updated gawk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 20 Sep 2026
Modification date: 20 Sep 2026
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 10 , 9
CVE: CVE-2026-40467 , CVE-2026-40468 , CVE-2026-40469 , CVE-2026-40553

Description

Use after free in gawk. (CVE-2026-40467)
Heap buffer overflow in gawk. (CVE-2026-40468)
Heap buffer overflow in gawk. (CVE-2026-40469)
Stack-based buffer overflow in gawk. (CVE-2026-40553)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35997
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8588-1
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40467
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40468
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40469
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40553

SRPMS

10/core

• gawk-5.3.2-2.1.mga10

9/core

• gawk-5.2.2-1.1.mga9