Critical
Security advisory
Buffer overflow in ccn-lite-ccnb2xml.c in CCN-lite before 2.00 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the vallen and len variables.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12468
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer overflow in ccn-lite-ccnb2xml.c in CCN-lite before 2.00 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving the vallen and len variables.
osv:CVE-2017-12468
Complete source record
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