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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure syslog-ng is Installed

    syslog-ng can be installed in replacement of rsyslog. The <code>syslog-ng-core</code> package can be installed with the following command: <pre> $ ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses

    While the kernel is built with warnings enabled for any missed stack variable initializations, this warning is silenced for anything passed by refe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • zero-init everything passed by reference

    Zero-initialize any stack variables that may be passed by reference and had not already been explicitly initialized. This configuration is availabl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Syslog

    The syslog service has been the default Unix logging mechanism for many years. It has a number of downsides, including inconsistent log format, lac...
    Group
  • Ensure rsyslog-gnutls is installed

    TLS protocol support for rsyslog is installed. The <code>rsyslog-gnutls</code> package can be installed with the following command: <pre> $ sudo d...
    Rule Medium Severity

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