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Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-3120 · published 17 October 2005

CVE-2005-3120: Invisible-island lynx vulnerability

Invisible Island · Lynx

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.

9.8 CVSS 3.1 Critical EPSS 23% · top 2.3% CWE-131 · CWE-131
9.8CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 7.5
23%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
70References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

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

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-3120), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.