CVE-2017-1085

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2017-1085

Assigner
secteam@freebsd.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2018-09-12T14:29:00

Last Modified Date
2018-11-23T16:57:02

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd::::::::	1	OR		11.2

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector
LOCAL

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE

Integrity Impact
COMPLETE

Availability Impact
COMPLETE

Base Score
7.2

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
10

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
HIGH

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.8

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
1.8

Impact Score
5.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt	Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1085
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1085

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:51:50				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 12:01:41	2018-09-12T14:29Z	2018-09-12T14:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:01:41		2018-11-23T16:57:02	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 12:01:41		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated