{"id":"CVE-2006-5170","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:38:35.242365Z","published":"2006-10-10T04:06:00Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22682"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22685"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22694"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22696"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22869"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23132"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23428"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}