High severity · published Sep 12, 2018
CVE-2017-1085
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
7.8
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% 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-2017-1085
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1085
Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/
Exploit
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
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