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.
References
Link Resource
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42279/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published: 2017-06-19T00:00:00

Updated: 2018-09-13T09:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2017-1085

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2018-11-23T16:57:02.693


Link: CVE-2017-1085

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