High severity · published Sep 12, 2018
CVE-2017-1083
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, a stack guard-page is available but is disabled by default
7.5
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, a stack guard-page is available but is disabled by default. This results in the possibility a poorly written process could be cause a stack overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 66% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Freebsd · Freebsd
before 11.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1083
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1083
Exploit
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
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