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General Purpose Operating System Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from operating system management functionality.

    <VulnDiscussion>Operating system management functionality includes functions necessary for administration and requires privileged user access...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000134

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    Group
  • The operating system must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known safe state helps prevent systems from failing to a state that may cause loss of data or unauthorized acces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000185

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • SRG-OS-000278

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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