Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 20.04
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Enable checks on credential management
Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential management. The additional code keeps track of the number of pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that th...Rule Low Severity -
Disable kernel debugfs
<code>debugfs</code> is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and write to these files. The configuration that was use...Rule Low Severity -
Enable checks on linked list manipulation
Enable this to turn on extended checks in the linked-list walking routines. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at <code>/boot/config-*</code>. To check the configurat...Rule Low Severity -
Enable checks on notifier call chains
Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. The config...Rule Low Severity -
Enable checks on scatter-gather (SG) table operations
Scatter-gather tables are mechanism used for high performance I/O on DMA devices. Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. The configuration that was used to build kernel is availab...Rule Low Severity
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