Vulnerability: Truncation of Root Passwords in Valve Steam Link

Vulnerability: Truncation of Root Passwords in Valve Steam Link

CVE-2017-17878 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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).

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