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Assessment Title
Rule Text
OL 8 must disable acquiring, saving, and processing core dumps.
Description
Discussion Text
It is detrimental for operating systems to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objectives. These unnecessary capabilities or services are often overlooked and therefore may remain unsecured. They increase the risk to the platform by providing additional attack vectors.
A core dump includes a memory image taken at the time the operating system terminates an application. The memory image could contain sensitive data and is generally useful only for developers trying to debug problems.
When the kernel invokes "systemd-coredump" to handle a core dump, it runs in privileged mode and will connect to the socket created by the "systemd-coredump.socket" unit. This, in turn, will spawn an nonprivileged "systemd-coredump@.service" instance to process the core dump.
A core dump includes a memory image taken at the time the operating system terminates an application. The memory image could contain sensitive data and is generally useful only for developers trying to debug problems.
When the kernel invokes "systemd-coredump" to handle a core dump, it runs in privileged mode and will connect to the socket created by the "systemd-coredump.socket" unit. This, in turn, will spawn an nonprivileged "systemd-coredump@.service" instance to process the core dump.
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