Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2880
Advisory Released Date: 2025-06-12
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-06-12
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2025-40907)
Affected Packages:
perl-FCGI
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update perl-FCGI to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
perl-FCGI-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
perl-FCGI-debuginfo-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
perl-FCGI-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
perl-FCGI-debuginfo-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
perl-FCGI-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
perl-FCGI-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
perl-FCGI-debuginfo-0.74-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64