CVE-2017-1085

HIGH

Freebsd < 11.2 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Qualys Corporation · cdosfreebsd_x86
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0062
EPSS Percentile 70.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
freebsd/freebsd < 11.2
Published Sep 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026