Upstream information

CVE-2025-40907 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (CISA-ADP) SUSE
Base Score 5.3 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact Low Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1243325 [IN_PROGRESS], 1243326 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS
  • perl-FCGI >= 0.74-8.el7_9.1
Patchnames:
RHSA-2025:8625 (x86_64)
SUSE Liberty Linux 8
  • perl-FCGI >= 0.78-12.module+el8.10.0+23147+df114ff4
Patchnames:
ESSA-2025:3015 (x86_64)
ESSA-2025:3016 (x86_64)
ESSA-2025:3017 (x86_64)
ESSA-2025:3018 (x86_64)
SUSE Liberty Linux 9
  • perl-FCGI >= 0.79-8.1.el9_6
Patchnames:
RHSA-2025:8635 (x86_64)


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 16 16:00:15 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Aug 26 19:26:21 2026