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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Oracle Linux 8

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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/...
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  • AppArmor

    Many security vulnerabilities result from bugs in trusted programs. A trusted program runs with privileges that attackers want to possess. The prog...
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  • AppArmor profiles mode

    enforce - Set all AppArmor profiles to enforce mode
    complain - Set all AppArmor profiles to complain mode
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  • 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 ...
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  • L1TF vulnerability mitigation

    Defines the L1TF vulneratility mitigations to employ.
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  • MDS vulnerability mitigation

    Defines the MDS vulneratility mitigation to employ.
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  • 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
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  • 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...
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  • 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
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  • 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 ...
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