Denial of Service due to integer overflow
Summary
Denial of Service due to integer overflow. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 2.8). Weakness: CWE-190. Red Hat lists fixing advisory RHSA-2026:40041 with package gawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum1.
What this means
In plain English
Denial of Service due to integer overflow. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 2.8). Weakness: CWE-190. Red Hat lists fixing advisory RHSA-2026:40041 with package gawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum1. Successful exploitation can interrupt the affected service or exhaust resources, reducing availability until the component recovers.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: gawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum1, RHSA-2026:40041.
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Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
- gawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum1
- RHSA-2026:40041
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: gawk-main-5.4.0-3.1.hum1, RHSA-2026:40041. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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