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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Memory Poisoning

    Memory Poisoning consists of writing a special value to uninitialized or freed memory. Poisoning can be used as a mechanism to prevent leak of information and detection of corrupted memory.
    Group
  • Record Unsuccessful Access Attempts to Files - openat

    At a minimum, the audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Creation Attempts to Files - openat O_CREAT

    The audit system should collect unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>openat</code> syscall can be used to create new files when O_CREAT flag is specified. The following aui...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Modification Attempts to Files - openat O_TRUNC_WRITE

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. The <code>openat</code> syscall can be used to modify files if called for write operation of with O_TRUNC...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure auditd Rules For Unauthorized Attempts To openat Are Ordered Correctly

    The audit system should collect detailed unauthorized file accesses for all users and root. To correctly identify unsuccessful creation, unsuccessful modification and unsuccessful access of files v...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • slub_debug - debug options

    Defines the debug options to use in slub_debug kernel command line argument.
    Value
  • Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - removexattr

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to re...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - rename

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Delete Attempts to Files - renameat

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file deletion attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to read audit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Record Unsuccessful Permission Changes to Files - setxattr

    The audit system should collect unsuccessful file permission change attempts for all users and root. If the <code>auditd</code> daemon is configured to use the <code>augenrules</code> program to re...
    Rule Medium Severity

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