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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
System Settings
Kernel Configuration
Emulate Privileged Access Never (PAN)
Emulate Privileged Access Never (PAN)
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Emulate Privileged Access Never (PAN)
Medium Severity
Enabling this option prevents the kernel from accessing user-space memory directly by pointing TTBR0_EL1 to a reserved zeroed area and reserved ASID. The user access routines restore the valid TTBR0_EL1 temporarily. This configuration is available from kernel 4.10, but may be available if backported by distros. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at
/boot/config-*
. To check the configuration value for
CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
, run the following command:
grep CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN /boot/config-*
For each kernel installed, a line with value "y" should be returned.