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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2018-09-12T14:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:27:37.070Z

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-1085

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-09-12T14:29:00.780

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:21:18.467

Link: CVE-2017-1085

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