What is CVE-2018-6953?

CVE-2018-6953 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ccn-Lite, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-6953?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Ccn-Lite

CVE-2018-6953

In CCN-lite 2, the Parser of NDNTLV does not verify whether a certain component's length field matches the actual component length, which has a resultant buffer overflow and out-of-bounds memory accesses.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.015 (72.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Ccn-lite — versions 2.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6953?: CVE-2018-6953 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ccn-Lite, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-02-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-6953?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.