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Solaris 11 X86 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The operating system must employ malicious code protection mechanisms at workstations, servers, or mobile computing devices on the network to detect and eradicate malicious code transported by electronic mail, electronic mail attachments, web accesses, removable media, or other common means.

    <VulnDiscussion>In order to minimize potential negative impact to the organization caused by malicious code, it is imperative that malicious ...
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  • The operating system must back up audit records at least every seven days onto a different system or system component than the system or component being audited.

    <VulnDiscussion>Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up audit records to a differen...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Editing a system file with common tools such as vi, emacs, or gedit does not allow the auditing of changes made by an operato...
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  • SRG-OS-000142

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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  • 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 ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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  • The audit system must identify in which zone an event occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tracking the specific Solaris zones in the audit trail reduces the time required to determine the cause of a security event.&...
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  • SRG-OS-000480

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  • The operating system must monitor for unauthorized connections of mobile devices to organizational information systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile devices include portable storage media (e.g., USB memory sticks, external hard disk drives) and portable computing and...
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  • SRG-OS-000349

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  • The audit system must support an audit reduction capability.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using the audit system will utilize the audit reduction capability. Without an audit reduction capability, users find it diff...
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  • SRG-OS-000352

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  • The audit system records must be able to be used by a report generation capability.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Enabling the audit system will produce records for use in report generation. Without an audit reporting capability, users fi...
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