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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Fedora
System Settings
Kernel Configuration
Make the kernel text and rodata read-only
Make the kernel text and rodata read-only
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Make the kernel text and rodata read-only
Medium Severity
When set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available from kernel 4.11. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at
/boot/config-*
. To check the configuration value for
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
, run the following command:
grep CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX /boot/config-*
For each kernel installed, a line with value "y" should be returned.