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V-216210CAT II — Medium severitySV-216210r959010_rule

The centralized process core dump data directory must be owned by root.

Rule version SOL-11.1-080050 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

Process core dumps contain the memory in use by the process when it crashed. Any data the process was handling may be contained in the core file, and it must be protected accordingly. If the centralized process core dump data directory is not owned by root, the core dumps contained in the directory may be subject to unauthorized access.

Check

Check the defined directory for process core dumps. # coreadm | grep "global core file pattern"

Check the ownership of the directory. # ls -lLd [core file directory]

If the directory is not owned by root, this is a finding.

Fix

The root role is required.

Change the owner of the core file directory.

# chown root [core file directory]

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216210
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216210r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17448r373012_chk
Fix ID
F-17446r373013_fix