CVE-2023-4156mediumCWE-125

CVE-2023-4156: medium-severity vulnerability in gawk

Heap out of bound read in builtin.c

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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.4%
A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package. This issue may lead to a crash and could be used to read sensitive information.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Fedora · Fedoran/a · gawkRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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