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CVE-2002-1975: Weak Encryption

First published: Tue Dec 31 2002(Updated: )

Sharp Zaurus PDA SL-5000D and SL-5500 uses a salt of "A0" to encrypt the screen-locking password as stored in the Security.conf file, which makes it easier for local users to guess the password via brute force methods.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Sharp Zaurus=sl-5500
Sharp Zaurus=sl-5000d
All of
Sharp Zaurus Sl-5000d Firmware
Sharp Zaurus Sl-5000d
All of
Sharp Zaurus Sl-5500 Firmware
Sharp Zaurus Sl-5500

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