CVE-2006-5170

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2006-5170
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2006-10-10T04:06:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-02-25T19:20:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-755 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/755.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR core_3.0
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:linux_kernel_2.6.9:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:4.0_s390x:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680 Broken Link Third Party Advisory
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291 Broken Link Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203 Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/22682 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22694 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22696 Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22869 Third Party Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html Broken Link Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23132 Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23428 Third Party Advisory
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/ Broken Link Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22685 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319 Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5170
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5170
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:31:26 Added to TrackCVE