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CVE-2006-5170

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-755

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 products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• Fedoraproject Fedora Core: through core_3.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems: 4.0_s390, 4.0_s390x
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 4.0

References

• 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

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