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01 Record

CVE-2017-1085

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: freebsd
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 78.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2018-09-12 14:00Z8 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 20:27Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-11-30
Assigning CNA
freebsd
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
3726e42c42d9a613f8c8520d548961ba7e6e0c59f6215d2f3ffda9bb15a50ed9

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
FreeBSDFreeBSDbefore 11.2-RELEASE—

06 References