# CVE-2018-7039: CCN-lite 2.0.0 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact because

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-14 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

CCN-lite 2.0.0 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact because the ccnl_ndntlv_prependBlob function in ccnl-pkt-ndntlv.c can be called with wrong arguments. Specifically, there is an incorrect integer data type causing a negative third argument in some cases of crafted TLV data with inconsistent length information.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/ccn-lite/issues/191

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