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V-216445CAT II — Medium severitySV-216445r959010_rule

Process core dumps must be disabled unless needed.

Rule version SOL-11.1-080040 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

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.

Check

Check the process core dump configuration. # coreadm | grep enabled

If any lines are returned by coreadm other than "logging", this is a finding.

Fix

The Maintenance and Repair profile is required.

Change the process core dump configuration to disable core dumps globally and on a per process basis.

# coreadm -d global
# coreadm -d process
# coreadm -d global-setid
# coreadm -d proc-setid
# coreadm -e log

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216445
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216445r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17681r371423_chk
Fix ID
F-17679r371424_fix