Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
BugTraq
Name:
Email:
*Note: Email address will appear as "user domain ext" to prevent harvesting.
Subject:
Message:
 
Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.x PRCTL Core Dump Handling -- Simple workaround Jul 14 2006 06:36PM
Lukasz Trabinski (lukasz wsisiz edu pl)
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Caveo Internet BV - Security wrote:

> The most easy way to stop this vulnerability is this by sepcifying the core
> dump location
>
> echo /root/core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
>
> This specifies /root as core dump location which makes it unavailable for
> the local user.
...

[ more ]  





 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus