gawk vulnerabilities
4 known vulnerabilities in gawk from GNU. 4 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
Latest first
- 7.5 High severity
gawk: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
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
- 9.1 Critical severity
gawk: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" 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 32-bit builds of gawk in versions 5.4.0 and belo
- 9.1 Critical severity
gawk: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Integer overflow vulnerability has been found in "builtin.c" program file of gawk. This issue may lead to memory exhaustion on the hosting operating system and could be used to overwrite gawk heap metadata and objects with attacker-controlled bytes. It affects
- 7.5 High severity
gawk: Use After Free
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.