7.8high
CVE-2017-10851 exploit
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, an application which calls setrlimit() to increase RLIMIT_STACK may turn a read-only memory region below th…
Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.8%
percentile 79%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.85% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs.
Exploits and detections
- EDB-42279 FreeBSD - 'setrlimit' Stack Clash (PoC) · dos · 2017-06-28
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Affected products
- FreeBSD FreeBSD
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
References
- qualys.com /2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- exploit-db.com /exploits/42279/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-1085
- NVD: CVE-2017-1085
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