CVE-2006-5170 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10418