It can be used to generate core dumps of running processes (`$PID`). Such files often contains sensitive information such as open files content, cryptographic keys, passwords, etc. This command produces a binary file named `core.$PID`, that is then often filtered with `strings` to narrow down relevant information.
- Evidence
- Upstream reference
- Environment
- Local host
- Compatibility
- Linux reference. macOS compatibility has not been checked for this command and execution context.
- Context
- sudo
- Native
- file-read
It can be used to generate core dumps of running processes (`$PID`). Such files often contains sensitive information such as open files content, cryptographic keys, passwords, etc. This command produces a binary file named `core.$PID`, that is then often filtered with `strings` to narrow down relevant information.
- Evidence
- Upstream reference
- Environment
- Local host
- Compatibility
- Linux reference. macOS compatibility has not been checked for this command and execution context.
- Context
- suid
- Native
- file-read
It can be used to generate core dumps of running processes (`$PID`). Such files often contains sensitive information such as open files content, cryptographic keys, passwords, etc. This command produces a binary file named `core.$PID`, that is then often filtered with `strings` to narrow down relevant information.
- Evidence
- Upstream reference
- Environment
- Local host
- Compatibility
- Linux reference. macOS compatibility has not been checked for this command and execution context.
- Context
- unprivileged
- Native
- file-read