fold_binary in fold-const.c in GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) 4.1 improperly handles pointer overflow when folding a certain expr comparison to a corresponding offset comparison in cases other than EQ_EXPR and NE_EXPR, which might introduce buffer overflow vulnerabilities into applications that could be exploited by context-dependent attackers.NOTE: the vendor states that the essence of the issue is "not correctly interpreting an offset to a pointer as a signed value."
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2006-04-20T10:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T17:27:29.536Z
Reserved: 2006-04-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-1902
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-04-20T10:02:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:10:03.050
Link: CVE-2006-1902
Redhat
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