High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-1085
CVE-2017-1085
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.
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References
2- www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txtnvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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