{"id":81924,"date":"2026-07-13T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40553-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-gawk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:07:56","slug":"cve-2026-40553-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-gawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40553-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-gawk\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40553 &#8211; Stack-based buffer overflow in gawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40553<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 13, 2026, 12:07 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 22\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in &#8220;extension\/readdir.c&#8221; program file of gawk (ftype()\u00a0routine). 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\u00a0gawk in versions 5.4.0 and below.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 5.1 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40553 Published : July 13, 2026, 12:07 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 22\u00a0minutes ago Description :Buffer overflow vulnerability has been found in &#8220;extension\/readdir.c&#8221; program file of gawk (ftype()\u00a0routine). 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\u00a0gawk &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}