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CVE-2006-5170

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-10-10 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Big EndianRedhat Enterprise LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux WorkstationRedhat Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat Enterprise Linux ServerFedoraproject Fedora CoreDebian Debian LinuxRedhat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems

Weakness Type

CWE-755

References