From: "Caveo Internet BV - Security" <security@caveo.nl.>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com.>
Subject: Linux Kernel 2.6.x PRCTL Core Dump Handling -- Simple workaround
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:50:19 +0200
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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.
Kind regards,
Ronald Timmerman - Caveo Internet BV
