{"schema_version": "1.7.0", "id": "RLSA-2026:73512", "modified": "2026-09-30T12:15:25.015310Z", "published": "2026-09-30T12:05:19.277561Z", "upstream": ["CVE-2026-40467", "CVE-2026-40468", "CVE-2026-40553"], "summary": "Moderate: gawk security update", "details": "The gawk packages contain the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* gawk: gawk: Memory corruption via integer overflow (CVE-2026-40468)\n\n* gawk: Gawk: Buffer overflow in ftype() routine may lead to code execution or denial of service (CVE-2026-40553)\n\n* gawk: gawk: Denial of Service due to Use After Free vulnerability in io.c (CVE-2026-40467)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.", "severity": [{"type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}], "affected": [{"package": {"ecosystem": "Rocky Linux:9", "name": "gawk", "purl": "pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gawk?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0"}, "ranges": [{"type": "ECOSYSTEM", "events": [{"introduced": "0"}, {"fixed": "0:5.1.0-6.el9_8.1"}], "database_specific": {"yum_repository": "BaseOS"}}]}], "references": [{"type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:73512"}, {"type": "REPORT", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499655"}, {"type": "REPORT", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499657"}, {"type": "REPORT", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499658"}, {"type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:73512"}], "credits": [{"name": "Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"}, {"name": "Red Hat"}], "database_specific": {"license": "CC-BY-4.0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "source_advisory": "RHSA-2026:73512"}}