From: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>

This patch applies the upstream fix as referenced in [3], using the
commit shown in [1]. It also applies the corrective follow-up [2],
which fixes the snprintf() truncation boundary check. Both commits
are included in gawk 5.4.1, identified as the fixed release in [4].

[1] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=cca0366144336b49aaa7d5d949966ce8e2c70843
[2] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=bfa2e4b890a44100a99d26b54af385479528b12e
[3] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40553
[4] https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-40467/

Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>
---
 .../gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch         | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch         | 44 ++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb      |  2 +
 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81e2efd6b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+From 6e7695c994aa45c0f7e9f8b80aa6f99717bbaf60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <[email protected]>
+Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:39:02 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Avoid buffer overflow in extension/readdir.c.
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-40553
+Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=cca0366144336b49aaa7d5d949966ce8e2c70843]
+
+(cherry picked from commit cca0366144336b49aaa7d5d949966ce8e2c70843)
+Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>
+---
+ extension/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
+ extension/readdir.c | 6 +++++-
+ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/extension/ChangeLog b/extension/ChangeLog
+index b11e83ac..6f88eb19 100644
+--- a/extension/ChangeLog
++++ b/extension/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
++2026-04-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
++
++      * readdir.c (ftype): Use snprintf() to check for buffer
++      overflow in the file name before calling stat(). Thanks to
++      Marcin Wyczechowski <[email protected]> for the report.
++
+ 2026-02-22         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
+ 
+       * 5.4.0: Release tar ball made.
+diff --git a/extension/readdir.c b/extension/readdir.c
+index f876e168..5bbee261 100644
+--- a/extension/readdir.c
++++ b/extension/readdir.c
+@@ -118,8 +118,12 @@ ftype(struct dirent *entry, const char *dirname)
+ #endif
+       char fname[PATH_MAX];
+       struct stat sbuf;
++      int count;
++
++      count = snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name);
++      if (count > sizeof(fname))
++              return "u";     // buffer overflow. skip stat() call.
+ 
+-      sprintf(fname, "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name);
+       if (stat(fname, &sbuf) == 0) {
+               if (S_ISBLK(sbuf.st_mode))
+                       return "b";
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..84bfdc5418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From a98440e83cb19b042958a179293bd637c400a35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <[email protected]>
+Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:48:19 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Small fix in extension/readdir.c.
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-40553
+Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=bfa2e4b890a44100a99d26b54af385479528b12e]
+
+(cherry picked from commit bfa2e4b890a44100a99d26b54af385479528b12e)
+Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>
+---
+ extension/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
+ extension/readdir.c | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/extension/ChangeLog b/extension/ChangeLog
+index 6f88eb19..9fe216e6 100644
+--- a/extension/ChangeLog
++++ b/extension/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
++2026-04-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
++
++      * readdir.c (ftype): Use >= in check of snprintf() return
++      value. Thanks to Andrew Schorr <[email protected]>.
++
+ 2026-04-15         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
+ 
+       * readdir.c (ftype): Use snprintf() to check for buffer
+diff --git a/extension/readdir.c b/extension/readdir.c
+index 5bbee261..3cb31834 100644
+--- a/extension/readdir.c
++++ b/extension/readdir.c
+@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ ftype(struct dirent *entry, const char *dirname)
+       int count;
+ 
+       count = snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name);
+-      if (count > sizeof(fname))
++      if (count >= sizeof(fname))
+               return "u";     // buffer overflow. skip stat() call.
+ 
+       if (stat(fname, &sbuf) == 0) {
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
index a7c88224dd..f44d82b37c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://CVE-2026-40467.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-40468.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-40469.patch \
+           file://CVE-2026-40553_p1.patch \
+           file://CVE-2026-40553_p2.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
"3dd430f0cd3b4428c6c3f6afc021b9cd3c1f8c93f7a688dc268ca428a90b4ac1"
-- 
2.35.6

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