CVE-2006-5170
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-10-04 20:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 19:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-10-04
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-755Improper Handling of Exceptional ConditionsClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- edd8d5098ac669b80a548326a5a1e0362c4f80f0d47f5b51018426277982893c
05 Affected products
06 References
- securitytracker.com1017153http://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0719http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680
- secunia.com22682http://secunia.com/advisories/22682
- www.securityfocus.com20061005 rPSA-2006-0183-1 nss_ldaphttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded
- www.trustix.org2006-0061http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
- www.securityfocus.com20880http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880
- secunia.com22685http://secunia.com/advisories/22685
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:201http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:027http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
- secunia.com22869http://secunia.com/advisories/22869
- secunia.com22694http://secunia.com/advisories/22694
- secunia.com23132http://secunia.com/advisories/23132
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200612-19http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml
- secunia.com23428http://secunia.com/advisories/23428
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10418https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418
- www.debian.orgDSA-1203http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
- bugzilla.padl.comhttp://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286
- secunia.com22696http://secunia.com/advisories/22696
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4319http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319
07 Fixed in
Debian 11
- libpam-ldap Fixed in 180-1.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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