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CVE-2005-3120

CVE-2005-3120

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 23%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 17
1st PoCOct 17
exploitation probability
23%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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 products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/1256
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References
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.7/SCOSA-2006.7.txtftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.47/SCOSA-2005.47.txthttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/038019.htmlhttp://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170253http://secunia.com/advisories/17150http://secunia.com/advisories/17216http://secunia.com/advisories/17230http://secunia.com/advisories/17231http://secunia.com/advisories/17238http://secunia.com/advisories/17248http://secunia.com/advisories/17340