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Guide to the Secure Configuration of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Enable use of Berkeley Packet Filter with seccomp

    Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement task-defined system call fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable different security models

    This allows you to choose different security modules to be configured into your kernel. The configuration that was used to build kernel is availab...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Verify Group Who Owns Backup gshadow File

    To properly set the group owner of /etc/gshadow-, run the command:
    $ sudo chgrp root /etc/gshadow-
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable Yama support

    This enables support for LSM module Yama, which extends DAC support with additional system-wide security settings beyond regular Linux discretionar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable SLUB debugging support

    SLUB has extensive debug support features and this allows the allocator validation checking to be enabled. The configuration that was used to buil...
    Rule Medium Severity

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