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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • RHEL 9 must disable virtual system calls.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;System calls are special routines in the Linux kernel, which userspace applications ask to do privileged tasks. Invoking a sy...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must clear the page allocator to prevent use-after-free attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Poisoning writes an arbitrary value to freed pages, so any modification or reference to that page after being freed or before...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00192

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must clear SLUB/SLAB objects to prevent use-after-free attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in nonexecutable regions of memory or in memory locations t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00193

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    Group
  • RHEL 9 must enable mitigations against processor-based vulnerabilities.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Kernel page-table isolation is a kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability and hardens the kernel aga...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

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  • RHEL 9 must enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
    Rule Low Severity

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