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Mageia 9: MGASA-2025-0003 critical: tinyproxy remote execution risk

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.. (CVE-2022-40468) A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP Connection Headers . MGASA-2025-0003 - Updated tinyproxy packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 10 Jan 2025 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0003.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 9 CVE: CVE-2022-40468, CVE-2023-49606 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.. (CVE-2022-40468) A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing in Tinyproxy 1.11.1 and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. A specially crafted HTTP header can trigger reuse of previously freed memory, which leads to memory corruption and could lead to remote code execution. An attacker needs to make an unauthenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-49606) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33206 - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/07/1 - - - https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7140-1 - https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7190-1 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40468 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49606 SRPMS: - 9/core/tinyproxy-1.10.0-3.1.mga9 . The Mageia team has released updates for tinyproxy to fix severe security issues highlighted in advisory MGASA-2025-0003.. tinyproxy security, Mageia advisory, heap data leak, remote code execution. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 10, 2025 •Critical Mageia