CVE-2006-5170

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22682
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22685
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22694
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22696
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22869
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23132
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23428
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418
• http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22682
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22685