CVE-2022-40468

Publication date 19 September 2022

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tinyproxy 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.11.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.10.0-4ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.8.4-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.8.3-3ubuntu16.04.1~esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.8.3-3ubuntu14.04.1~esm2

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7140-1
    • Tinyproxy vulnerability
    • 9 December 2024
    • USN-7140-2
    • Tinyproxy vulnerability
    • 6 January 2025

Other references