CVE-2008-1685

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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)

** DISPUTED ** gcc de 4.2.0 a 4.3.0 en GNU Compiler Collection, cuando casts no están utilizados, considera que la suma de un puntero y un entero es mayor o igual que el puntero, lo que podría llevar a la eliminación del código de comprobación de longitud que estaba previsto como un mecanismo de protección contra ataques de desbordamientos de enteros y desbordamiento de búfer, y no proporcionar un mensaje diagnóstico sobre esta eliminación. NOTA: el proveedor ha determinado que este comportamiento del compilador es correcto según la sección 6.5.6 de la norma C99 (también conocido como ISO/IEC 9899:1999).

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2008-04-06 CVE Reserved
2008-04-06 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-189: Numeric Errors

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763	X_refsource_misc
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289	Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.2.0 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.2.0"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.2.1 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.2.1"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.2.2 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.2.2"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.2.3 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.2.3"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.2.4 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.2.4"		-		Affected
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Gcc Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc"				4.3.0 Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Gcc" and version "4.3.0"		-		Affected