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CVE-2017-1085

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CVE-2017-1085

Published: Sep 12, 2018

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

affected
before 11.2-RELEASE

References

42279
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

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