CVE-2008-1685
Published: April 6, 2008Last modified: July 22, 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)
Status
| Product | Release | Package | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaquita Linux | 23 LTS | gcc | Not affected (12.2.1_git20220924-r5) |
| Stream | gcc | Not affected (12.2.1_git20230419-r2) | |
| Hardened Containers | 23 LTS | gcc | Not affected (12.2.1_git20220924-r5) |
| Stream | gcc | Not affected (12.2.1_git20230419-r2) |