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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Oracle Linux 9

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Configure auditing of unsuccessful file deletions

    Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to delete a file are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pre>## Unsuccessful file ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 mode
    Value
  • 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
  • Confidence level on Hardware Random Number Generator

    Defines the level of trust on the hardware random number generators available in the system and the percentage of entropy to credit.
    Value
  • Spec Store Bypass Mitigation

    This controls how the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) vulnerability is mitigated.
    Value
  • Disable Recovery Booting

    Oracle Linux 9 systems support an "recovery boot" option that can be used to prevent services from being started. The <code>GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY</...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • IOMMU configuration directive

    On x86 architecture supporting VT-d, the IOMMU manages the access control policy between the hardware devices and some of the system critical u...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Configure kernel to zero out memory before allocation

    To configure the kernel to zero out memory before allocating it, add the <code>init_on_alloc=1</code> argument to the default GRUB 2 command line. ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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