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CVE-2008-1685

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
06/04/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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)

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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