CVE-2008-1685
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-04-06 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:32
Severity ?
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
cve@mitre.orghttp://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686
Impacted products
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