CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2008-1685
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
1.25%
Original NVD 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)