CVE-2005-3120

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    CVE-2005-3120

    Published: 17 Oct 2005Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTrjis function in Lynx 2.8.6 and earlier allows remote NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via certain article headers containing Asian characters that cause Lynx to add extra escape (ESC) characters.

    References: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/17150, http://secunia.com/advisories/17216, http://secunia.com/advisories/17230, http://secunia.com/advisories/17231, http://secunia.com/advisories/17238, http://secunia.com/advisories/17248, http://secunia.com/advisories/17340, http://secunia.com/advisories/17360, http://secunia.com/advisories/17444, http://secunia.com/advisories/17445, http://secunia.com/advisories/17480, http://secunia.com/advisories/18376, http://secunia.com/advisories/18584, http://secunia.com/advisories/20383, http://securitytracker.com/id?1015065, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-010.htm, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-874, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-876, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:186, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-803.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419763/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-874, http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-876, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085, http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170253, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.7/SCOSA-2006.7.txt, ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.47/SCOSA-2005.47.txt, http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html, http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1015065, http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.423056, http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2005.026-lynx.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-803.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419763/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9257, https://usn.ubuntu.com/206-1/

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High