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    CVE-2008-1685

    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)

    Published:Mar 30, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Apr 6, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.02013
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Gcc

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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