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CVE-2005-3120 Detail

Description

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-3120
NVD Published Date:
10/17/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Debian GNU/Linux