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CVE-2025-40907 (GCVE-0-2025-40907)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-05-16 13:03 – Updated: 2025-09-05 13:23
VLAI
Title
FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4 | mailing-list |
| https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67 | issue-tracking |
| https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/release… | patch |
| https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-202… | technical-description |
| https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14 | issue-tracking |
| https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/Fast… | patch |
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CVE-2025-40907 (GCVE-0-2025-40907)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-16 13:03 – Updated: 2025-09-05 13:23
VLAI
Title
FCGI versions 0.44 through 0.82, for Perl, include a vulnerable version of the FastCGI fcgi2 (aka fcgi) library
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4 | mailing-list |
| https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67 | issue-tracking |
| https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/release… | patch |
| https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-202… | technical-description |
| https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14 | issue-tracking |
| https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/Fast… | patch |
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