CVE-2008-0639

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: 2008-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the EnumPrinters function in the Spooler service (nwspool.dll) in Novell Client 4.91 SP2, SP3, and SP4 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request, aka Novell bug 353138, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5854. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6701.

Affected products

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

References

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=SszG22IIugM~
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=120276962211348&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/28895
http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5008300.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487980/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27741
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019366
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0496
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-005.html
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=SszG22IIugM~
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=120276962211348&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/28895

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