CVE-2008-1685

Publication date 6 April 2008

Last updated 4 August 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)

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gcc-4.2	9.10 karmic	Ignored
	9.04 jaunty	Ignored
	8.10 intrepid	Ignored
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored
	7.10 gutsy	Ignored end of life, was needed
	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.10 edgy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
gcc-4.3	9.10 karmic	Ignored
	9.04 jaunty	Ignored
	8.10 intrepid	Ignored
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	7.10 gutsy	Not in release
	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.10 edgy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

gcc-4.3 exists in main, so watch for Intrepid and later

mdeslaur

upstream says this isn't an issue: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-04/msg00115.html

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1685