VYPR
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

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  • Cn Uofbasel/Ccn LiteOSV2 versions
    0.1.0, 0.3.1, 2.0.0+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: 0.1.0, 0.3.1, 2.0.0
    • (no CPE)range: =2

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