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CVE-2008-1685

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2008-04-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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)

Affected Platforms

Gnu Gcc

Weakness Type

CWE-119, CWE-189

References