VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1527

critical
Published 2010-08-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Novell iPrint Client before 5.44 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long call-back-url parameter in an op-client-interface-version action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15072 remote windows verified
Trancer · 2010-09-21

Novell iPrint Client - ActiveX Control call-back-url Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-15042 remote windows verified
Abysssec · 2010-09-19

Novell iPrint Client Browser Plugin - 'call-back-url' Remote Stack Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/novelliprint_callbackurl rank 300
Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control call-back-url Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse novelliprint{"endIncluding":"5.42"}
suse novelliprint4.26
suse novelliprint4.27
suse novelliprint4.28
suse novelliprint4.30
suse novelliprint4.32
suse novelliprint4.34
suse novelliprint4.36
suse novelliprint4.38
suse novelliprint5.04
suse novelliprint5.12
suse novelliprint5.20b
suse novelliprint5.30
suse novelliprint5.32
suse novelliprint5.40

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.