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CVE-2017-1085
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-12T14:29:00.780 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:13:52.640

Summary

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.

Affected products

freebsd — freebsd

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References

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