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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
System Settings
Kernel Configuration
Warn on W+X mappings found at boot
Warn on W+X mappings found at boot
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Warn on W+X mappings found at boot
Medium Severity
Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. This configuration is available from kernel 5.8. The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at
/boot/config-*
. To check the configuration value for
CONFIG_DEBUG_WX
, run the following command:
grep CONFIG_DEBUG_WX /boot/config-*
For each kernel installed, a line with value "y" should be returned.