Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Emulate Privileged Access Never (PAN)
Enabling this option prevents the kernel from accessing user-space memory directly by pointing TTBR0_EL1 to a reserved zeroed area and reserved ASI...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable kernel support for MISC binaries
Enabling <code>CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC</code> makes it possible to plug wrapper-driven binary formats into the kernel. This is specially useful for prog...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable support for BUG()
Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring numerous fatal c...Rule Medium Severity -
Trigger a kernel BUG when data corruption is detected
This option makes the kernel BUG when it encounters data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked for validity. This configurat...Rule Low Severity -
Disable compatibility with brk()
Enabling compatiliby with <code>brk()</code> allows legacy binaries to run (i.e. those linked against libc5). But this compatibility comes at the c...Rule Medium Severity
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