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V-11996

CAT III (Low)

Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.

Rule ID

SV-45679r1_rule

STIG

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R12

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

Process core dumps contain the memory in use by the process when it crashed. Process core dump files can be of significant size and their use can result in file systems filling to capacity, which may result in Denial of Service. Process core dumps can be useful for software debugging.

Check Content

# ulimit -c
If the above command does not return 0 and the enabling of core dumps has not been documented and approved by the IAO, this a finding.

Fix Text

Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and set a hard limit for "core" to 0 for all users.