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Debian: CVE-2025-40907: libfcgi-perl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2025-40907: libfcgi-perl -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/16/2025
Created
05/21/2025
Added
05/20/2025
Modified
05/20/2025

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libfcgi-perl

References

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