GCC vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in GCC. When an application calls the erase_if function on a binary heap priority queue in libstdc++, the library reallocates storage but fails to update its internal entry pointer. An attacker capable of triggering this operation can exploit this use-after-free condition, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via an application crash or potential memory corruption.

In the POWER9 backend of GCC before version 10, optimization of multiple calls to the __builtin_darn intrinsic into a single call reduces the entropy of the random number generator. This occurs because a volatile operation was not specified.

Gcc 2.7.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary .i, .s, or .o files.