CVE-2006-5170

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.

🔗 References (42)

• secalert@redhathttp://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
• secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22682
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22685
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22694
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22696
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22869
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23132
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23428
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
• secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
• secalert@redhathttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded