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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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
  • Enable Kernel Page-Table Isolation (KPTI)

    To enable Kernel page-table isolation, add the argument <code>pti=on</code> to all BLS (Boot Loader Specification) entries ('options' line) for the...
    Rule High Severity
  • Disable vsyscalls

    To disable use of virtual syscalls, add the argument <code>vsyscall=none</code> to all BLS (Boot Loader Specification) entries ('options' line) for...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable Recovery Booting

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4 systems support an "recovery boot" option that can be used to prevent services from being started. The <code>GRUB...
    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 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

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