CVE-2008-1685

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-1685
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-04-06 23:44:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptiongcc 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)

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Gcc 4.2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gcc 4.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gcc 4.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gcc 4.2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gcc 4.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gcc 4.3.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
26763 – [4.1/4.2 Regression] wrong final value of induction variable calculated af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 gcc.gnu.org
VU#162289 - C compilers may silently discard some wraparound checks af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-07-24Joshua BressersThe Red Hat Security Response Team is aware of this new gcc behavior and is currently working to determine what impact these changes will have on the source code processed by the compiler. These changes do not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2, 3, 4, or 5.

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