CWE
NVD-CWE-Other 119 131
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2005-3120: Buffer Overflow

First published: Mon Oct 17 2005(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security@debian.org security@debian.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
University Of Kansas Lynx=2.8.4
University Of Kansas Lynx=2.8.3
University Of Kansas Lynx=2.8.6
University Of Kansas Lynx=2.8.6_dev13
Invisible-island Lynx<=2.8.6
Debian Debian Linux=3.0
Debian Debian Linux=3.1

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