CVE-2008-1685

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Gcc
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 April 2008

Summary

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)

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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