FKIE_CVE-2017-17878

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-27 17:08 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in Valve Steam Link build 643. Root passwords longer than 8 characters are truncated because of the default use of DES (aka the CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des" setting).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.htmlIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
valvesoftware steam_link_firmware *
valvesoftware steam_link -
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