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
Link Resource
https://blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.html Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-03T16:23:21

Updated: 2022-10-03T16:23:21

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-17878

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-27T17:08:21.140

Modified: 2018-01-11T20:12:36.287


Link: CVE-2017-17878

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CWE