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.
problem types: Userspace stack overflow
affected:
{
product: FreeBSD
vendor: FreeBSD
versions:
status: affected, version: before 11.2-RELEASE
}