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LIN1025-18195 : Security Advisory - gawk - CVE-2026-40553

Created: Aug 12, 2026 Updated: Sep 16, 2026

Found In Version: 10.25.33.2

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 25

Component/s: Userspace

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.