oss-security - Re: gcc 4.2 optimizations and integer overflow checks

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:31:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gcc 4.2 optimizations and integer overflow checks

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Nico Golde wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> * Steven M. Christey <coley@...us.mitre.org> [2008-04-07 18:24]:
> > While an unusual bug, we decided to assign a CVE for it.
> [...]
> Just stumbled upon CVE-2006-1902, look spretty much the same
> to me, is this a dup?

Nice find!

My immediate suspicion is that they're not the same, based solely on
affected versions - CVE-2008-1685 has a specific affected version range
because it changed behaviors in 4.2.0.  Maybe that change came out of
followup analysis stemming from CVE-2006-1902.

But, I'm not completely sure.  Solar?

- Steve

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