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Guide to the Secure Configuration of openSUSE

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Disable kexec system call

    <code>kexec</code> is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot b...
    Rule Low Severity
  • Disable legacy (BSD) PTY support

    Disable the Linux traditional BSD-like terminal names /dev/ptyxx for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals, and use only the modern...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable module signature verification

    Check modules for valid signatures upon load. Note that this option adds the OpenSSL development packages as a kernel build dependency so that the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable automatic signing of all modules

    Sign all modules during make modules_install. Without this option, modules must be signed manually, using the scripts/sign-file tool. The configur...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Require modules to be validly signed

    Reject unsigned modules or signed modules with an unknown key. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at <code>/boot/config-...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Specify the hash to use when signing modules

    This configures the kernel to build and sign modules using <xccdf-1.2:sub idref="xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_value_var_kernel_config_module_sig_ha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Specify module signing key to use

    Setting this option to something other than its default of <code>certs/signing_key.pem</code> will disable the autogeneration of signing keys and a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra_defrtr

    Accept default router in router advertisements?
    Value
  • net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337

    Enable to enable TCP behavior conformant with RFC 1337
    Value
  • Sign kernel modules with SHA-512

    This configures the kernel to build and sign modules using SHA512 as the hash function. The configuration that was used to build kernel is availab...
    Rule Medium Severity

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