{"id":81925,"date":"2026-07-13T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40469-heap-buffer-overflow-in-gawk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:07:55","slug":"cve-2026-40469-heap-buffer-overflow-in-gawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40469-heap-buffer-overflow-in-gawk\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40469 &#8211; Heap buffer overflow in gawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40469<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 13, 2026, 12:07 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 22\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in &#8220;builtin.c&#8221; program file of gawk (do_sub() routine). This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects\u00a032-bit builds of gawk 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-2026-40469 Published : July 13, 2026, 12:07 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 22\u00a0minutes ago Description :Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in &#8220;builtin.c&#8221; program file of gawk (do_sub() routine). This issue could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects causing the program to crash. It affects\u00a032-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and &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-81925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925","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=81925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}