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High RLSA-2025:8635 1 CVE

Important: perl-FCGI security update

Published Oct 4, 2025 · Updated Oct 7, 2025

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

FastCGI Perl bindings.

Security Fix(es):

* perl-fcgi: FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library (CVE-2025-40907)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 perl-FCGI 1:0.79-8.1.el9_6

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

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366847