Guide to the Secure Configuration of Oracle Linux 8
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Configure auditing of successful file deletions
Ensure that successful attempts to delete a file are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## Successful file dele...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure immutable Audit login UIDs
Configure kernel to prevent modification of login UIDs once they are set. Changing login UIDs while this configuration is enforced requires special...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful file modifications
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to modify a file are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## Unsuccessful file ...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful file modifications
Ensure that successful attempts to modify a file are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## Successful file modi...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of loading and unloading of kernel modules
Ensure that loading and unloading of kernel modules is audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## These rules watch ...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful ownership changes
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described abo...Rule Medium Severity -
conman_can_network SELinux Boolean
default - Default SELinux boolean setting.
on - SELinux boolean is enabled.
off - SELinux boolean is disabled.Value -
Configure auditing of successful ownership changes
Ensure that successful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful permission changes
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change file or directory permissions are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pr...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful permission changes
Ensure that successful attempts to modify permissions of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above:...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure audit according to OSPP requirements
Configure audit to meet requirements for Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) v4.2.1. Audit defines groups of rules in <code>/usr/share/doc/...Rule Medium Severity -
AppArmor
Many security vulnerabilities result from bugs in trusted programs. A trusted program runs with privileges that attackers want to possess. The prog...Group -
AppArmor profiles mode
enforce - Set all AppArmor profiles to enforce mode
complain - Set all AppArmor profiles to complain modeValue -
GRUB2 bootloader configuration
During the boot process, the boot loader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The boot loader allows ...Group -
L1TF vulnerability mitigation
Defines the L1TF vulneratility mitigations to employ.Value -
MDS vulnerability mitigation
Defines the MDS vulneratility mitigation to employ.Value -
Configure kernel to trust the CPU random number generator
There exist two ways how to ensure that the Linux kernel trusts the CPU hardware random number generator. If the option is configured during kernel...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure L1 Terminal Fault mitigations
L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is available in the Level 1 Data Ca...Rule High Severity -
Force kernel panic on uncorrected MCEs
A Machine Check Exception is an error generated by the CPU itdetects an error in itself, memory or I/O devices. These errors may be corrected and g...Rule Medium Severity -
Ensure SMAP is not disabled during boot
The SMAP is used to prevent the supervisor mode from unintentionally reading/writing into memory pages in the user space, it is enabled by default ...Rule Medium Severity
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