Denial of Service Vulnerability in setrlimit in HP-UX

CVE-2001-1564 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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