CVE-2008-1685: Buffer Overflow
First published: Sun Apr 06 2008(Updated: )
** 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).
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| GNU GCC | =4.2.4 | |
| GNU GCC | =4.2.0 | |
| GNU GCC | =4.2.1 | |
| GNU GCC | =4.2.3 | |
| GNU GCC | =4.3.0 | |
| GNU GCC | =4.2.2 | |
| =4.2.0 | ||
| =4.2.1 | ||
| =4.2.2 | ||
| =4.2.3 | ||
| =4.2.4 | ||
| =4.3.0 |
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