PT-2018-5298 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published

2018-09-12

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Updated

2018-11-23

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CVE-2017-1085

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions prior to 11.2-RELEASE
Description The issue allows an application to turn a read-only memory region into a read-write region by calling the setrlimit() function to increase the RLIMIT STACK limit. This could be exploited by a specially crafted executable to execute arbitrary code in the user context.
Recommendations For versions prior to 11.2-RELEASE, update to version 11.2-RELEASE or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1085

Affected Products

Freebsd