Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On 2014-03-25 12:08:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Alt-SysRq-F is disabled on sid:
> mar 25 12:03:28 sid kernel: SysRq : This sysrq operation is disabled.
But what if someone logs in, uses all the memory left (possibly not
even in a malicious way) so that this triggers the OOM killer, and
the OOM killer chooses the screen saver as the application to kill?
The right thing is that the screen saver should protect itself
against the OOM killer.
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