CVE-2008-1685

** 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).

CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

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

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289	US Government Resource
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

Information

Published : 2008-04-06 16:44

Updated : 2017-08-07 18:30

NVD link : CVE-2008-1685

Mitre link : CVE-2008-1685

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-189

Numeric Errors

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Products Affected

gnu

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