Vulnerability CVE-2006-5170
Published: 2006-10-10   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Redhat -> Fedora core 

 References:
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
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
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