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Medium ALAS2-2025-2880 1 CVE

Moderate: perl-FCGI security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 4, 2025 · Updated Jun 12, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40907: FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library. The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nameLen or valueLen values in data to the IPC socket. This occurs in ReadParams in fcgiapp.c.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-FCGI 1:0.74-8.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-FCGI-debuginfo 1:0.74-8.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2025-40907

    FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library

    FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library. The included FastCGI library is affected by CVE-2025-23016, causing an integer overflow (and resultant heap-based buffer overflow) via crafted nam…

    ether FCGI libfcgi-perl perl-FCGI Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-40907.html