diff --git a/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.3.ebuild b/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.3.ebuild
index 8cc5e6fc73d2a..31e5f2c594bfd 100644
--- a/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.3.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ DATASETS=(
 )
 
 for DATASET in ${!DATASETS[@]}; do
-	read FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR <<< "${DATASETS[$DATASET]}"
+	read -rd '' FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR < <(printf %s "${DATASETS[$DATASET]}")
 	SRC_URI+="${SRC_DATA}/${FILENAME}.${VERSION}.tar.gz "
 done
 unset DATASET FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR
diff --git a/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.4.ebuild b/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.4.ebuild
index 1505d4cc15309..cdb959e88c943 100644
--- a/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/geant-data/geant-data-4.11.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ DATASETS=(
 )
 
 for DATASET in ${!DATASETS[@]}; do
-	read FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR <<< "${DATASETS[$DATASET]}"
+	read -rd '' FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR < <(printf %s "${DATASETS[$DATASET]}")
 	SRC_URI+="${SRC_DATA}/${FILENAME}.${VERSION}.tar.gz "
 done
 unset DATASET FILENAME VERSION ENVVAR