CVE-2001-1564: HP HP-Ux

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.01 only; version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only; version 10.24 only; version 11.00 only; version 11.04 only; …

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.