CVE-2025-40907 – Apache FCGI Perl Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-40907 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

    May. 16, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.

    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/23/4
    Added Reference https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/issues/67
    Added Reference https://github.com/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/releases/tag/2.4.5
    Added Reference https://github.com/perl-catalyst/FCGI/issues/14
    Added Reference https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/FastCGI-Archives/fcgi2/pull/74.patch
    Added Reference https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/cve-2025-23016-exploiting-the-fastcgi-library
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