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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Stack Protector buffer overlow detection

    This feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on the stack just before the return address, and validates the value just before a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Strong Stack Protector

    This features adds canary logic protection to more kinds of vulnerable functions than CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR, but not to all functions so that perfo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337

    Enable to enable TCP behavior conformant with RFC 1337
    Value
  • net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies

    Enable to turn on TCP SYN Cookie Protection
    Value
  • Make the kernel text and rodata read-only

    When set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...
    Rule Medium Severity

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