CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40468

Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

Published: Sep 19, 2022 | Modified: Nov 04, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used. Tinyproxy commit 84f203f and earlier use uninitialized buffers in process_request() function.

Weakness

The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the product’s installer, administrator, or maintainer, but the default is not secure.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Tinyproxy Tinyproxy_project * 1.11.1 (including)
Tinyproxy Ubuntu bionic *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu focal *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu jammy *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu kinetic *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu lunar *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu mantic *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu trusty *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu upstream *
Tinyproxy Ubuntu xenial *

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