CVE-2017-1085

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 12, 2018
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Nov 30, 2016

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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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • before 11.2-RELEASEAffected

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