CVE-2007-2954

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 23.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Novell Client: 4.91-sp2, 4.91-sp3, 4.91-sp4

References

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=VOXNZb-6t_g~
http://osvdb.org/37321
http://secunia.com/advisories/26374
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-57/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018623
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25474
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3006
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-045/
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35824
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=VOXNZb-6t_g~
http://osvdb.org/37321
http://secunia.com/advisories/26374

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