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.

An update of the gawk package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gawk: heap out of bound read in builtin.c (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gawk: heap out of bound read in builtin.c (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the versions of the gawk package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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. (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the gawk package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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. (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of gawk installed on the remote host is prior to 4.0.2-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2357 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6373-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that gawk could be made to read out of bounds when processing certain inputs. If a user     or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input, an attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3440-1 advisory.

  - A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package which may result in a crash of     the software. (CVE-2023-4156) (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3431-1 advisory.

  - A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package which may result in a crash of     the software. (CVE-2023-4156) (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-292 advisory.

  - A heap out-of-bounds read flaw was found in builtin.c in the gawk package which may result in a crash of     the software. (CVE-2023-4156) (CVE-2023-4156)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
203614	Photon OS 4.0: Gawk PHSA-2023-4.0-0488	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
199663	RHEL 8 : gawk (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199623	RHEL 9 : gawk (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196804	RHEL 6 : gawk (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
188672	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3028)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188605	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3496)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188582	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3468)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188577	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3208)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188536	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-2875)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188520	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3173)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188446	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3005)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188406	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3357)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188372	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3376)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188355	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3098)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188221	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-2894)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
188083	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : gawk (EulerOS-SA-2023-3084)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
186576	Amazon Linux 2 : gawk (ALAS-2023-2357)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
181451	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : gawk vulnerability (USN-6373-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
180310	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gawk (SUSE-SU-2023:3440-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
180309	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gawk (SUSE-SU-2023:3431-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
180131	Amazon Linux 2023 : gawk, gawk-all-langpacks, gawk-devel (ALAS2023-2023-292)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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