{"id":"DEBIAN-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":"2026-08-27T12:47:32.502514373Z","published":"2006-10-10T04:06:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2006-5170"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5170"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libpam-ldap","ecosystem":"Debian:11","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/libpam-ldap?arch=source&distro=bullseye"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"180-1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"medium"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5170.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}