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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 info...
    Group
  • slub_debug - debug options

    Defines the debug options to use in slub_debug kernel command line argument.
    Value
  • Set Daemon Umask

    The file <code>/etc/init.d/functions</code> includes initialization parameters for most or all daemons started at boot time. Many daemons on the sy...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Enable ExecShield

    ExecShield describes kernel features that provide protection against exploitation of memory corruption errors such as buffer overflows. These featu...
    Group
  • kernel.kptr_restrict

    Configure exposition of kernel pointer addresses
    Value

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