CVE-2022-40468 (GCVE-0-2022-40468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-19 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
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Summary
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.
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