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@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ configuration file and significant hardening is applied to a myriad of component
- Force immediate system reboot on the occurrence of a single kernel panic, reducing the
risk and impact of denial-of-service attacks and both cold and warm boot attacks.
- Optional - Force immediate kernel panic on OOM. This is to avoid security features such as the screen
locker, kloak, emerg-shutdown from being arbitrarily terminated when the system starts
running out of memory.
- Optional - Force immediate kernel panic on OOM (out of memory) which with the above setting
will force an immediate system reboot as opposed to placing any reliance on the oom_killer
to avoid arbitrarily terminating security features based on their OOM score. Note this
creates the risk of userspace-based denial-of-service attacks that maliciously fill memory.
- Disable the use of legacy TIOCSTI operations which can be used to inject keypresses.

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@ -204,13 +204,14 @@ kernel.perf_event_paranoid=3
## Note that this must be used with kernel.panic=-1 for it to be function as intended.
## This prevents security features such as the screen locker, kloak, and emerg-shutdown from being arbitrarily terminated.
## Enabling these two together creates a risk of userspace-based denial-of-service attacks that maliciously fill memory.
## This opinionated default forces immediate system reboot rather than placing any reliance on the oom_killer.
## This forces immediate system reboot rather than placing any reliance on the oom_killer.
## Known to cause extreme user experience problems with certain applications as the Tor Browser.
## Enabling by default requires improved upstream handling of user space OOM better accounting for desktop users.
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## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_memory
## https://forums.whonix.org/t/screen-locker-in-security-can-we-disable-these-at-least-4-backdoors/8128/14
## https://github.com/KSPP/kspp.github.io/issues/9
## https://github.com/Kicksecure/security-misc/issues/324
## Needs more work.
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#vm.panic_on_oom=2