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The kdump service on AlmaLinux OS 9 must be disabled.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps 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. Unless the system is used for kernel development or testing, there is little need to run the kdump service.

ID
SV-269278r1050160_rule
Version
ALMA-09-022350
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Disable the kdump service with the following command:

$ systemctl mask --now kdump