CVE-2016-20013

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-20013
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-19 05:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-03-03 16:43:00 UTC
Descriptionsha256crypt and sha512crypt through 0.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because the algorithm's runtime is proportional to the square of the length of the password.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sha256crypt Project Sha256crypt All All All All
Application Sha512crypt Project Sha2512crypt All All All All
Application Sha512crypt Project Sha512crypt All All All All

References

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JavaScript is not available. MISC twitter.com
Aaron Toponce : Do Not Use sha256crypt / sha512crypt - They're Dangerous MISC pthree.org
akkadia.org/drepper/SHA-crypt.txt MISC akkadia.org
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