CVE-2017-1085

Published Sep 12, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 7.8 High EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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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
Sep 16, 2024, 8:27 PM
Reserved
Nov 30, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 12, 2018, 2:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:13 AM