Vulnerability CVE-2017-1085


Published: 2018-09-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
FreeBSD 'setrlimit' Stack Clash Proof of Concept
Qualys
29.06.2017

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Freebsd -> Freebsd 

 References:
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

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