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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-04-06T23:44:00.000

Modified: 2024-08-07T09:15:32.897

Link: CVE-2008-1685

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-03-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1685 - Bugzilla