Published: 07/05/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

system-tools-backends prior to 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 in Ubuntu 8.10, as used by "Users and Groups" in GNOME System Tools, hashes account passwords with 3DES and consequently limits effective password lengths to eight characters, which makes it easier for context-dependent malicious users to successfully conduct brute-force password attacks.

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Debian Bug report logs - #527952 system-tools-backends: CVE-2008-6792 limiting effective password length to 8 characters Package: system-tools-backends; Maintainer for system-tools-backends is Andriy Grytsenko <andrej@repkievua>; Source for system-tools-backends is src:system-tools-backends (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported b ...

CWE-310 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-663-1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/287134 http://secunia.com/advisories/32566 http://osvdb.org/50037 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50435 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=527952 https://nvd.nist.gov

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