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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
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  • 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
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  • net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337

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

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

    When set, module 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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  • Enable TCP/IP syncookie support

    Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as SYN flooding. It is denial-of-service attack that prevents legitimate remote users from bein...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka KAISER)

    Speculation attacks against some high-performance processors can be used to bypass MMU permission checks and leak kernel data to userspace. This ca...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • User a virtually-mapped stack

    Enable this to use virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages. This configuration is available from kernel 4.9. The configuration that was us...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • Disable x86 vsyscall emulation

    Disabling it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program tries to use a ...
    Rule Low Severity
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