CVE-2008-1685

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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).

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2008-1685

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2008-04-06T23:44:00

Last Modified Date
2017-08-08T01:30:21

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.0:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.1:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.2:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.3:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.2.4:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gcc:4.3.0:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289	US Government Resource
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1685
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1685

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 09:08:18				Added to TrackCVE