CVE-2026-40469

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 below.

• gawk (bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1142071) [trixie] - gawk (Minor issue) Fixed by: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=ae1b2d508f46913269a9e62aceda3636afe8147b