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Guide to the Secure Configuration of openSUSE

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Prevent Routing External Traffic to Local Loopback on All IPv4 Interfaces

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv4.conf.all.route_localnet</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w n...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Sending and Accepting Shared Media Redirects for All IPv4 Interfaces

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv4.conf.all.shared_media</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w net...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Sending and Accepting Shared Media Redirects by Default

    To set the runtime status of the <code>net.ipv4.conf.default.shared_media</code> kernel parameter, run the following command: <pre>$ sudo sysctl -w...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Network Parameters for Hosts Only

    If the system is not going to be used as a router, then setting certain kernel parameters ensure that the host will not perform routing of network ...
    Group
  • nftables

    <code>If firewalld or iptables are being used in your environment, please follow the guidance in their respective section and pass-over the guidanc...
    Group
  • Uncommon Network Protocols

    The system includes support for several network protocols which are not commonly used. Although security vulnerabilities in kernel networking code ...
    Group
  • Nftables Base Chain Hooks

    The possible hooks which can be used to configure the base chain are: <code>ingress</code> (only in netdev family since Linux kernel 4.2, and inet ...
    Value
  • Nftables Chain Names

    The rules in nftables are attached to chains. Unlike in iptables, there are no predefined chains like INPUT, OUTPUT, etc. Instead, to filter pack...
    Value
  • Nftables Base Chain Policies

    This is the default verdict that will be applied to packets reaching the end of the chain (i.e, no more rules to be evaluated against). Currently ...
    Value
  • Nftables Base Chain Priorities

    Each nftables base chain is assigned a priority that defines its ordering among other base chains, flowtables, and Netfilter internal operations a...
    Value

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