GSD-2006-5170

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
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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.
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CVE-2006-5170
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      "lastModifiedDate": "2022-02-25T19:20Z",
      "publishedDate": "2006-10-10T04:06Z"
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