CVE-2006-5170

N/A
Published: October 4, 2006 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
8 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxEnterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux Desktop

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

pam_ldap in nss_ldap on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora Core 3 and earlier, and possibly other distributions does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pam_authenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver.

Affected

References (21)

x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken LinkIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22682
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22685
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22694
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22696
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22869
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23132

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-755

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