CVE-2017-1085: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: before 11.2 (fixed in 11.2)

Published 2018-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.