# CVE-2022-40468: Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-19 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy
- https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/blob/84f203fb1c4733608c7283bbe794005a469c4b00/src/reqs.c#L346
- https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457
- https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457#issuecomment-1264176815
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-27

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