ubuntu · CVE-2017-7252

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Priority: medium Published: 2023-11-03 01:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:37:24 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7252 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (botan1.10), 7 status rows across 7 suites (artful, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, not-affected 3, released 1.

Description:

bcrypt password hashing in Botan before 2.1.0 does not correctly handle passwords with a length between 57 and 72 characters, which makes it easier for attackers to determine the cleartext password.

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