CVE-2023-49606

NameCVE-2023-49606
DescriptionA use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing in Tinyproxy 1.11.1 and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. A specially crafted HTTP header can trigger reuse of previously freed memory, which leads to memory corruption and could lead to remote code execution. An attacker needs to make an unauthenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1070395

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tinyproxy (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.8.3-3+deb8u1vulnerable
stretch1.8.4-3~deb9u2vulnerable
buster1.10.0-2+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye1.10.0-5vulnerable
bookworm1.11.1-2.1vulnerable
sid, trixie1.11.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tinyproxysourcejessie(unfixed)end-of-life
tinyproxysourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
tinyproxysource(unstable)1.11.1-41070395

Notes

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1889
https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/533
https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/commit/12a8484265f7b00591293da492bb3c9987001956

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