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1.187 SLES-15-040190

Information

SUSE operating system kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.

GROUP ID: V-235003
RULE ID: SV-235003r991589

Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps may consume a considerable amount of disk space and may result in denial of service by exhausting the available space on the target file system partition.

Solution

If SUSE operating system kernel core dumps are not required, disable the "kdump" service with the following command:

sudo systemctl disable kdump.service

If kernel core dumps are required, document the need with the ISSO.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-235003r991589_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-040190, Vuln-ID|V-235003

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 134f9b9e9bd1ebc484d7cf91033a7ee8b84d5cf022cacbce65b72443b6dc0222