Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Enable checks on scatter-gather (SG) table operations
Scatter-gather tables are mechanism used for high performance I/O on DMA devices. Enable this to turn on checks on scatter-gather tables. The conf...Rule Low Severity -
Warn on W+X mappings found at boot
Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. This configuration is available from kernel 5.8. The configuration that was used to buil...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure low address space to protect from user allocation
This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected from userspace allocation. This configuration is available from kernel 3.14, bu...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable /dev/kmem virtual device support
Disable support for the /dev/kmem device. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at <code>/boot/config-*</code>. To chec...Rule Low Severity -
Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows
Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes. This configuratio...Rule Medium Severity
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