SV-35008r1: Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed. | HP-UX 11.31 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.

Description

Discussion Text

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.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000366

Additional Details

Responsibility

System Administrator

IA Controls

ECCD-1, ECCD-2

References

DPMS Target HP-UX 11.31 DISA DPMS Target HP-UX 11.31 2171

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.fso.hpux11:def:199
# Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# ulimit -c 0 in /etc/profile
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  grep -Pq '^[ 	]*ulimit[^#
]+-c[ 	]*0+([ 	]|$)' '/etc/profile' &>/dev/null
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.fso.hpux11:def:199

if grep -q '^[ \t]*ulimit[^#\r\n]+-c[ \t]*0+([ \t]|$)' /etc/profile; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; else echo "FAIL"; exit 1; fi

Remediation

Edit /etc/profile, ensure the ulimit command is present with the -c argument of the ulimit command set to 0.