Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-17878

Description

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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Affected products

Valve Software/Steamlink SDKreferences
Valve Software/Steam Link Firmware
cpe:2.3:o:valvesoftware:steam_link_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <644
Valve Software/Steam Linkllm-create
Range: = build 643

Patches

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References

blogger.davidmanouchehri.com/2017/12/steam-link-security-truncated-password.htmlnvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/101nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/ValveSoftware/steamlink-sdk/issues/110nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

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