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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Strong Stack Protector

    This features adds canary logic protection to more kinds of vulnerable functions than CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR, but not to all functions so that perfo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Make the kernel text and rodata read-only

    When set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Make the module text and rodata read-only

    When set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable TCP/IP syncookie support

    Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as SYN flooding. It is denial-of-service attack that prevents legitimate remote users from bein...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Ensure rsyslog Default File Permissions Configured

    rsyslog will create logfiles that do not already exist on the system. This settings controls what permissions will be applied to these newly create...
    Rule Medium Severity

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