Guide to the Secure Configuration of Debian 12
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SSH MaxStartups setting
Configure parameters for maximum concurrent unauthenticated connections to the SSH daemon.Value -
Set SSH Client Alive Count Max to zero
The SSH server sends at most <code>ClientAliveCountMax</code> messages during a SSH session and waits for a response from the SSH client. The optio...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 -
Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka KAISER)
Speculation attacks against some high-performance processors can be used to bypass MMU permission checks and leak kernel data to userspace. This ca...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable x86 vsyscall emulation
Disabling it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program tries to use a ...Rule Low Severity -
Kernel GCC plugin configuration
Contains rules that check the configuration of GCC plugins used by the compilerGroup -
Disable core dump backtraces
The <code>ProcessSizeMax</code> option in <code>[Coredump]</code> section of <code>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</code> specifies the maximum size in ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable storing core dump
The <code>Storage</code> option in <code>[Coredump]</code> sectionof <code>/etc/systemd/coredump.conf</code> can be set to <code>none</code> to dis...Rule Medium 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 addressesValue
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