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
| Vector | AV: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
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Affected Products
Freebsd