CVE-2001-1564 Information

Description

setrlimit in HP-UX 10.01 10.10 10.24 10.20 11.00 11.04 and 11.11 does not properly enforce core file size on processes after setuid or setgid privileges are dropped which could allow local users to cause a denial of service by exhausting available disk space.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2001-q3/0000.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6810.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3416 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5159