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 / debian_linux3.1 – 3.1
- fedoraproject / fedora_corecore_3.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux4.0 – 4.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux4.0 – 4.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_desktop4.0 – 4.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems4.0_s390 – 4.0_s390
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems4.0_s390x – 4.0_s390x
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian4.0 – 4.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_server4.0 – 4.0
- RedHat / enterprise_linux_workstation4.0 – 4.0
References
- MISChttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017153
- MISChttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0719.html
- MISChttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-680
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22682
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447859/100/200/threaded
- MISChttp://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
- MISChttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20880
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22685
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:201
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_27_sr.html
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22869
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22694
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23132
- MISChttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-19.xml
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23428
- MISChttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10418
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1203
- MISChttp://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291
- MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207286
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22696
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4319