Vulnerability Details CVE-2006-5170
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.026
EPSS Ranking 84.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- 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
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2006-5170
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:-
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5
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cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390x
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:4.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:4.0