THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-1084
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-1084

Freebsd vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
15.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
In FreeBSD before 11.2-RELEASE, multiple issues with the implementation of the stack guard-page reduce the protections afforded by the guard-page. This results in the possibility a poorly written process could be cause a stack overflow.
Affected vendor
Freebsd
Affected product
Freebsd
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2018-09-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 15.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-1084.
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