CVE-2026-40467

HIGH CVSS 7.5 View on NVD ↗

Description

Use After Free vulnerability has been found in "io.c" program file of gawk (do_getline_redir() routine). This issue may lead to a crash. It affects gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.

CVSS Vector

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

Affected Products

fossies/gawk

References

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=a2d18c74109e41bec29a23098eba2e00057286d8

Published: Jul 13, 2026 13:16 UTC Modified: Jul 14, 2026 01:13 UTC