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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • AppArmor

    Many security vulnerabilities result from bugs in trusted programs. A trusted program runs with privileges that attackers want to possess. The prog...
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  • AppArmor profiles mode

    enforce - Set all AppArmor profiles to enforce mode
    complain - Set all AppArmor profiles to complain mode
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  • 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 ...
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  • L1TF vulnerability mitigation

    Defines the L1TF vulneratility mitigations to employ.
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  • MDS vulnerability mitigation

    Defines the MDS vulneratility mitigation to employ.
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  • 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.
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  • Spec Store Bypass Mitigation

    This controls how the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) vulnerability is mitigated.
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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. ...
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