Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Configure auditing of unsuccessful ownership changes (ppc64le)
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described abo...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful ownership changes
Ensure that successful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful ownership changes (AArch64)
Ensure that successful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful ownership changes (ppc64le)
Ensure that successful attempts to change an ownership of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful permission changes
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change file or directory permissions are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pr...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful permission changes (AArch64)
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change file or directory permissions are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pr...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of unsuccessful permission changes (ppc64le)
Ensure that unsuccessful attempts to change file or directory permissions are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above: <pr...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful permission changes
Ensure that successful attempts to modify permissions of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above:...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure auditing of successful permission changes (AArch64)
Ensure that successful attempts to modify permissions of files or directories are audited. The following rules configure audit as described above:...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure audit according to OSPP requirements
Configure audit to meet requirements for Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) v4.2.1. Audit defines groups of rules in <code>/usr/share/doc/...Rule Medium Severity -
AppArmor
Many security vulnerabilities result from bugs in trusted programs. A trusted program runs with privileges that attackers want to possess. The prog...Group -
AppArmor profiles mode
enforce - Set all AppArmor profiles to enforce mode
complain - Set all AppArmor profiles to complain modeValue -
GRUB2 bootloader configuration
During the boot process, the boot loader is responsible for starting the execution of the kernel and passing options to it. The boot loader allows ...Group -
L1TF vulnerability mitigation
Defines the L1TF vulneratility mitigations to employ.Value -
MDS vulnerability mitigation
Defines the MDS vulneratility mitigation to employ.Value -
Confidence level on Hardware Random Number Generator
Defines the level of trust on the hardware random number generators available in the system and the percentage of entropy to credit.Value -
Spec Store Bypass Mitigation
This controls how the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) vulnerability is mitigated.Value -
Disable Recovery Booting
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 systems support an "recovery boot" option that can be used to prevent services from being started. The <code>GRUB_DISABL...Rule Medium Severity -
IOMMU configuration directive
On x86 architecture supporting VT-d, the IOMMU manages the access control policy between the hardware devices and some of the system critical u...Rule Unknown Severity -
Configure kernel to zero out memory before allocation
To configure the kernel to zero out memory before allocating it, add the <code>init_on_alloc=1</code> argument to the default GRUB 2 command line. ...Rule Medium Severity
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