Description (CNA)
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)
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41686
- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/162289
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.