DRAFT - Protection Profile for General Purpose Operating Systems
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Disable KDump Kernel Crash Analyzer (kdump)
The <code>kdump</code> service provides a kernel crash dump analyzer. It uses the <code>kexec</code> system call to boot a secondary kernel ("capture" kernel) following a system crash, which can lo...Rule Medium Severity -
Application Whitelisting Daemon
Fapolicyd (File Access Policy Daemon) implements application whitelisting to decide file access rights. Applications that are known via a reputation source are allowed access while unknown applicat...Group -
Install fapolicyd Package
Thefapolicyd
package can be installed with the following command:$ sudo yum install fapolicyd
Rule Medium Severity -
Enable the File Access Policy Service
The File Access Policy service should be enabled. Thefapolicyd
service can be enabled with the following command:$ sudo systemctl enable fapolicyd.service
Rule Medium Severity -
Kerberos
The Kerberos protocol is used for authentication across non-secure network. Authentication can happen between various types of principals -- users, service, or hosts. Their identity and encryption ...Group -
Disable Kerberos by removing host keytab
Kerberos is not an approved key distribution method for Common Criteria. To prevent using Kerberos by system daemons, remove the Kerberos keytab files, especially/etc/krb5.keytab
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Mail Server Software
Mail servers are used to send and receive email over the network. Mail is a very common service, and Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) are obvious targets of network attack. Ensure that systems are not r...Group -
Uninstall Sendmail Package
Sendmail is not the default mail transfer agent and is not installed by default. The <code>sendmail</code> package can be removed with the following command: <pre> $ sudo yum erase sendmail</pre> ...Rule Medium Severity -
NFS and RPC
The Network File System is a popular distributed filesystem for the Unix environment, and is very widely deployed. This section discusses the circumstances under which it is possible to disable NF...Group -
Uninstall nfs-utils Package
Thenfs-utils
package can be removed with the following command:$ sudo yum erase nfs-utils
Rule Low Severity
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