CVE-2008-1685

gcc 4.2.0 through 4.3.0 in GNU Compiler Collection, when casts are not used, considers the sum of a pointer and an int to be greater than or equal to the pointer, which might lead to removal of length testing code that was intended as a protection mechanism against integer overflow and buffer overflow attacks, and provide no diagnostic message about this removal. NOTE: the vendor has determined that this compiler behavior is correct according to section 6.5.6 of the C99 standard (aka ISO/IEC 9899:1999)

Score
CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2008-04-06
Last modified
2024-08-07
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-189

Affected products

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