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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2005-3120

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CVE-2005-3120

CAN-2005-3120 lynx buffer overflow

Published Modified CWE 131
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Red Hat.

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11lynx2.8.5-2sarge1
debian 12lynx2.8.5-2sarge1
debian 13lynx2.8.5-2sarge1
debian 14lynx2.8.5-2sarge1
echolynx2.8.5-2sarge1

References

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