CVE-2006-5170

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.46% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory trustix.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory padl.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153 third party advisory vdb entry
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html vendor advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 third party advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded mailing list third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ vendor advisory broken link third party advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880 third party advisory vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html vendor advisory broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 third party advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 third party advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418 signature third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203 patch vendor advisory issue tracking
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 vendor advisory broken link issue tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 vendor advisory issue tracking
http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319 third party advisory vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-5170?
CVE-2006-5170 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-5170?
To fix CVE-2006-5170, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-5170 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2006-5170 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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