Guide to the Secure Configuration of OpenEmbedded
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Maximum login attempts delay
Maximum time in seconds between fail login attempts before re-prompting.Value -
Maximum concurrent login sessions
Maximum number of concurrent sessions by a userValue -
Account Inactivity Timeout (seconds)
In an interactive shell, the value is interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt. Bash terminates after waiting for that number of seconds if input does...Value -
Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)
In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR), this randomizes the physical address at which the kernel image is decompressed and the virtual address where the kernel image is map...Rule Medium Severity -
Randomize the kernel memory sections
Randomizes the base virtual address of kernel memory sections (physical memory mapping, vmalloc & vmemmap). This configuration is available from kernel 4.8, but may be available if backported b...Rule Medium Severity -
Avoid speculative indirect branches in kernel
Compile kernel with the retpoline compiler options to guard against kernel-to-user data leaks by avoiding speculative indirect branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern supp...Rule Medium Severity -
SSH session Idle time
Specify duration of allowed idle time.Value -
SSH Max authentication attempts
Specify the maximum number of authentication attempts per connection.Value -
SSH Max Sessions Count
Specify the maximum number of open sessions permitted.Value -
SSH Max Keep Alive Count
Specify the maximum number of idle message counts before session is terminated.Value
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