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Gentoo GLSA 202305-27 Low Severity: Tinyproxy Memory Disclosure

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2023
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Referencing Gentoo GLSA 202305-27 on the Tinyproxy memory disclosure vulnerability, users must review updates from the Gentoo security team and patch accordingly
A vulnerability has been discovered in Tinyproxy which could be used to achieve memory disclosure.

Summary

Tinyproxy's request processing does not sufficiently null-initialize variables used in error pages.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue gentoo software update low severity tinyproxy memory disclosure

Resolution

All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.11.1_p20220908"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2022-40468 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40468

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-27
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

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Severity: Low
Title: Tinyproxy: Memory Disclosure
Date: May 21, 2023
Bugs: #871924
ID: 202305-27

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue gentoo software update low severity tinyproxy memory disclosure

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in Tinyproxy which could be used to achieve memory disclosure.

Background

Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------------- ------------ ------------ net-proxy/tinyproxy < 1.8.3-r3 >= 1.8.3-r3

Impact

===== Contents of the Tinyproxy server's memory could be disclosed via generated error pages.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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