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Guide to the Secure Configuration of OpenEmbedded

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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 user
    Value
  • 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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