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.
Better solution add line to /etc/limits.conf * hard core 0 and set pam_limits in pam services. -- *[ Łukasz Trąbiński ]* SysAdmin @wsisiz.edu.pl