Skip to content

Data Execution Prevention must be enforced.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies performing additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. The primary benefit of DEP is to help prevent code execution from data pages. Enabling this setting, turns off Data Execution Prevention. As a result, malicious code takes advantage of code injection or buffer overflow vulnerabilities possibly exploiting the computer.

Property Value
Responsibility System Administrator

ID
SV-33854r1_rule
Version
DTOO128 - Access
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Access 2010 -> Application Settings -> Security -> Trust Center “Turn off Data Execution Prevention” to “Disabled”.