VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3106

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

The ienipp.ocx ActiveX control in the browser plugin in Novell iPrint Client before 5.42 does not properly validate the debug parameter, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) via a parameter value with a crafted length, related to the ExecuteRequest method.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-15073 remote windows verified
Trancer · 2010-09-21

Novell iPrint Client - ActiveX Control 'debug' Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-16492 remote windows verified
Metasploit · 2010-09-21

Novell iPrint Client - ActiveX Control ExecuteRequest debug Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/novelliprint_executerequest_dbg rank 300
Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control ExecuteRequest debug Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse novelliprint{"endIncluding":"5.40"}
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

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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