CVE-2005-3120

Publication date 17 October 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
lynx	7.04 feisty	Fixed 2.8.5-2ubuntu1
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 2.8.5-2ubuntu1
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 2.8.5-2ubuntu1
lynx-cur	7.04 feisty	Fixed 2.8.6-18
	6.10 edgy	Fixed 2.8.6-18
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 2.8.6-18

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-206-1
Lynx vulnerability
17 October 2005

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3120