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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1203-1 New libpam-ldap packages fix access control bypass
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5155 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:41:04.390Z

Reserved: 2006-10-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-5170

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-10-10T04:06:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-5170

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-09-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-5170 - Bugzilla

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