CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5170
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755
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 configurations
• fedoraproject fedora core (<= core 3.0)
• redhat enterprise linux 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems 4.0 s390
• redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems 4.0 s390x
• redhat enterprise linux for power big endian 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 4.0
• debian debian linux 3.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 Broken Link, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418 Third Party Advisory