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CVE-2006-5170 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  10/10/2006

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Provides user account access
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10418
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10418

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5170
NVD Published Date:
10/10/2006
NVD Last Modified:
10/17/2018