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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU gcc up to 4.3.0. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
** 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).
The weakness was presented 04/06/2008 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-1685 since 04/06/2008. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (41686). See VDB-104532, VDB-135327, VDB-141193 and VDB-144034 for similar entries.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: No
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Status: Unproven
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Timeline
04/06/2008 🔍04/06/2008 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: gnu.orgAdvisory: kb.cert.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-1685 (🔍)
X-Force: 41686 - GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) weak security
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Entry
Created: 03/16/2015 17:00Updated: 09/22/2018 08:57
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (44), 09/22/2018 08:57 (6)
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