CVE-2017-1000375 describes a critical vulnerability in NetBSD 7.1 and potentially earlier versions, where the run-time link-editor (ld.so) is mapped directly below the stack region, bypassing ASLR protections. This design flaw significantly eases memory manipulation, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild, proof-of-concept exploit code exists (EDB-42272), and despite its critical severity, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.