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)
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-04-06T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T08:32:01.285Z
Reserved: 2008-04-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-1685
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-04-06T23:44:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:45:05.647
Link: CVE-2008-1685
Redhat