Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Disable Mounting of squashfs
To configure the system to prevent the <code>squashfs</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modpro...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Mounting of udf
To configure the system to prevent the <code>udf</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe.d/...Rule Low Severity -
Disable Modprobe Loading of USB Storage Driver
To prevent USB storage devices from being used, configure the kernel module loading system to prevent automatic loading of the USB storage driver. ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable Mounting of vFAT filesystems
To configure the system to prevent the <code>vfat</code> kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to the file <code>/etc/modprobe.d...Rule Low Severity -
Restrict Partition Mount Options
System partitions can be mounted with certain options that limit what files on those partitions can do. These options are set in the <code>/etc/fst...Group -
Value for hidepid option
The hidepid mount option is applicable to /proc and is used to control who can access the information in /proc/[pid] directories. The option can ha...Value -
Removable Partition
This value is used by the checks mount_option_nodev_removable_partitions, mount_option_nodev_removable_partitions, and mount_option_nodev_removable...Value -
Add noauto Option to /boot
The <code>noauto</code> mount option is used to prevent automatic mounting of th <code>/boot</code> partition. Add the <code>noauto</code> option ...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /boot
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/boot</code>. Legitimate character and block de...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /boot
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/boot</code>. Add the <code>noexec</code> op...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /boot
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/boot</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions shoul...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /dev/shm
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent creation of device files in <code>/dev/shm</code>. Legitimate character and block device...Rule Medium Severity -
Add noexec Option to /dev/shm
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/dev/shm</code>. It can be dangerous to allow...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /dev/shm
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/dev/shm</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions s...Rule Medium Severity -
Add grpquota Option to /home
The <code>grpquota</code> mount option allows for the filesystem to have disk quotas configured. Add the <code>grpquota</code> option to the fourth...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to /home
The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent device files from being created in <code>/home</code>. Legitimate character and block de...Rule Unknown Severity -
Add noexec Option to /home
The <code>noexec</code> mount option can be used to prevent binaries from being executed out of <code>/home</code>. Add the <code>noexec</code> opt...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nosuid Option to /home
The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/home</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions shoul...Rule Medium Severity -
Add usrquota Option to /home
The <code>usrquota</code> mount option allows for the filesystem to have disk quotas configured. Add the <code>usrquota</code> option to the fourth...Rule Medium Severity -
Add nodev Option to Non-Root Local Partitions
The <code>nodev</code> mount option prevents files from being interpreted as character or block devices. Legitimate character and block devices sho...Rule Medium Severity
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