# CVE-2018-6480: 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 exa

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-01-31 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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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## References

- https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/ccn-lite/issues/159

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