CVE-2007-2954: novell client

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-2954 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in novell client. EPSS estimates a 23.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 31-08-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Spooler service (nwspool.dll) in Novell Client 4.91 SP2 through SP4 for Windows allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain long arguments to the (1) RpcAddPrinterDriver, (2) RpcGetPrinterDriverDirectory, and other unspecified RPC requests, aka Novell bug 300870, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5854.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.