CVE-2017-1085
HIGHFreebsd < 11.2 - Memory Corruption
Title source: ruleDescription
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