CVE-2017-1085

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.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 78th percentile

Published

2018-09-12

Updated

2024-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-1084
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• CVE-2017-10928