USN-7140-2: Tinyproxy vulnerability

6 January 2025

tinyproxy could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Packages

  • tinyproxy - Lightweight, non-caching, optionally anonymizing HTTP proxy

Details

USN-7140-1 fixed CVE-2022-40468 in tinyproxy. This update provides the
corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Tinyproxy did not properly manage memory under
certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak
left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special
non-standard variables are used.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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