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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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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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:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.