High severity8.8OSV Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-6480
CVE-2018-6480
Description
A type confusion issue was discovered in CCN-lite 2, leading to a memory access violation and a failure of the nonce feature (which, for example, helped with loop prevention). ccnl_fwd_handleInterest assumes that the union member s is of type ccnl_pktdetail_ndntlv_s. However, if the type is in fact struct ccnl_pktdetail_ccntlv_s or struct ccnl_pktdetail_iottlv_s, the memory at that point is either uninitialised or points to data that is not a nonce, which renders the code using the local variable nonce pointless. A later nonce check is insufficient.
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Affected products
20.1.0, 0.3.1, 2.0.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 0.1.0, 0.3.1, 2.0.0
- (no CPE)range: =2
Patches
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References
1- github.com/cn-uofbasel/ccn-lite/issues/159nvdThird Party Advisory
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