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CVE-2017-17878
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-27T17:08:21.140 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:11:49.223

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).

Affected products

valvesoftware — steam_link_firmware

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References

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