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GLSA-202305-27 : Tinyproxy: Memory Disclosure

high Nessus Plugin ID 176191

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202305-27 (Tinyproxy: Memory Disclosure)

 - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Tinyproxy users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-proxy/tinyproxy-1.11.1_p20220908

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-27

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871924

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176191

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202305-27.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/21/2023

Updated: 5/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40468

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:tinyproxy, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40468