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CVE-2006-5170
critical
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.
References
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
http://secunia.com/advisories/23428
http://secunia.com/advisories/23132
http://secunia.com/advisories/22869
http://secunia.com/advisories/22696
http://secunia.com/advisories/22694
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2006-5155
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml