Bug#482698: CVE-2008-1685: removes possible protection mechanism against overflows
Package: gcc-4.3
Severity: important
Tags: security
Hi
The following CVE(0) has been issued against gcc.
CVE-2008-1685:
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 remove length testing code that was
intended as a protection mechanism against integer overflow and buffer
overflow attacks.
More information are here(1).
Please mention the CVE id in your changelog, if you happen to fix this
problem with an upload.
Cheers
Steffen
(0): http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1685
(1): http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26763
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