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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2006-5854 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in the Spooler service (nwspool.dll) in Novell Netware Client 4.91 through 4.91 SP2 allow remote attackers to exe…

published 2006-12-03 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5838

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
59.5%
EPSS 59.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in the Spooler service (nwspool.dll) in Novell Netware Client 4.91 through 4.91 SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) EnumPrinters and (2) OpenPrinter functions.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-29146)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

59.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29146 Novell Client 4.91 - 'NWSPOOL.dll' Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2006-11-21
  • EDB-3220 Multiple Printer Providers (Spooler Service) - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2007-01-29

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.