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Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • All manual editing of system-relevant files shall be done using the pfedit command, which logs changes made to the files.

    <VulnDiscussion>Editing a system file with common tools such as vi, emacs, or gedit does not allow the auditing of changes made by an operato...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000142

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    Group
  • The operating system must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial of service attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In the case of denial of service attacks, care must be taken when designing the operating system so as to ensure that the ope...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480

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    Group
  • The /etc/zones directory, and its contents, must have the vendor default owner, group, and permissions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Incorrect ownership can result in unauthorized changes or theft of data.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;FalsePositives&gt;&lt;/Fal...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480

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    Group
  • The limitpriv zone option must be set to the vendor default or less permissive.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Solaris zones can be assigned privileges generally reserved for the global zone using the "limitpriv" zone option. Any privil...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480

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    Group
  • The systems physical devices must not be assigned to non-global zones.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Solaris non-global zones can be assigned physical hardware devices. This increases the risk of such a non-global zone having ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480

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    Group

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