An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be "jumped" over (the stack guard page is bypassed), this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier (the stackguard page was introduced in 2010).
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7020973
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000364/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45625/
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03800en_us
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10207
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000364
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1712
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1647
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1616
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1567
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1491
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1490
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1489
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1488
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1487
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1486
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1485
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1484
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1483
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1482
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038724