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)
Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

07 Nov 2023, 02:02

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Summary ** DISPUTED ** 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). 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)

Information

Published : 2008-04-06 23:44

Updated : 2024-04-11 00:43


NVD link : CVE-2008-1685

Mitre link : CVE-2008-1685

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-1685


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Products Affected

gnu

  • gcc
CWE
CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-189

Numeric Errors