CVE-2008-1685

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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)

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119 CWE-189

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Apr 6, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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