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Guide to the Secure Configuration of OpenEmbedded

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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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