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CVE-2005-3120

Date: October 16, 2005

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.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (38)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435689/30/4740/threaded

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:186

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17216

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.423056

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17238

Url: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.7/SCOSA-2006.7.txt

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/206-1/

Url: http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2005.026-lynx.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17340

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/18376

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9257

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419763/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17360

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17480

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3120

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20383

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170253

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-874

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-876

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-15.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17248

Url: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17445

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17444

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/18584

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17230

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17231

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1015065

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17150

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-010.htm

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1085

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15117

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-803.html

Url: http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html

Url: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.47/SCOSA-2005.47.txt

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2005-3120

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2005-3120

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

CWE-131

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2005-3120

Date: October 16, 2005

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Severity Score

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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