CVE-2017-1085

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 Software

Weaknesses

• Userspace stack overflow

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/

References

• https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/

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