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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Make the module text and rodata read-only

    When set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable TCP/IP syncookie support

    Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as SYN flooding. It is denial-of-service attack that prevents legitimate remote users from bein...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka KAISER)

    Speculation attacks against some high-performance processors can be used to bypass MMU permission checks and leak kernel data to userspace. This ca...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • daemons_enable_cluster_mode SELinux Boolean

    default - Default SELinux boolean setting.
    on - SELinux boolean is enabled.
    off - SELinux boolean is disabled.
    Value
  • User a virtually-mapped stack

    Enable this to use virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages. This configuration is available from kernel 4.9. The configuration that was us...
    Rule Medium Severity

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