Description
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, an application which calls setrlimit() to increase RLIMIT_STACK may turn a read-only memory region below the stack into a read-write region. A specially crafted executable could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the user context.
Published: 2018-09-12
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-10101 In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, an application which calls setrlimit() to increase RLIMIT_STACK may turn a read-only memory region below the stack into a read-write region. A specially crafted executable could be exploited to execute arbitrary code in the user context.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:27:37.070Z

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-1085

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-12T14:29:00.780

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:21:18.467

Link: CVE-2017-1085

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