Use After Free Affecting gawk package, versions [0,]
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- published14 Jul 2026
- disclosed13 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 13 Jul 2026
CVE-2026-40467 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the do_getline_redir function in the io.c file. An attacker can cause a crash by triggering use of freed memory during input redirection processing.