vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2025-40907: Security patch for perl-FCGI (ALAS-2025-2880)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 16, 2025
Added
Jun 13, 2025
Modified
Jun 13, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-fcgiamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-fcgi-debuginfo
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