CVE-2008-1685 | BDVDB-2026-30099 Detail

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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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1. Version 12008-04-06Record published in the CVE List.
2. Version 22024-08-07Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.