On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:50:19PM +0200, 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.
Better yet (generally),
sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/dev/null
[ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ] && { grep -q ^kernel.core_pattern /etc/sysctl.conf ||
echo kernel.core_pattern = /dev/null >> /etc/sysctl.conf }
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