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ANSSI-BP-028 (high)

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode

    This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their execution. By using pipes ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable use of Berkeley Packet Filter with seccomp

    Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement task-defined system call fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable different security models

    This allows you to choose different security modules to be configured into your kernel. The configuration that was used to build kernel is availab...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog

    Enforce restrictions on unprivileged users reading the kernel syslog via dmesg(8). The configuration that was used to build kernel is available at...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disable mutable hooks

    Ensure kernel structures associated with LSMs are always mapped as read-only after system boot. The configuration that was used to build kernel is...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable Yama support

    This enables support for LSM module Yama, which extends DAC support with additional system-wide security settings beyond regular Linux discretionar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Harden slab freelist metadata

    This feature protects integrity of the allocator's metadata. This configuration is available from kernel 4.14. The configuration that was used to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Randomize slab freelist

    Randomizes the freelist order used on creating new pages. This configuration is available from kernel 5.9, but may be available if backported by di...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Disallow merge of slab caches

    For reduced kernel memory fragmentation, slab caches can be merged when they share the same size and other characteristics. This carries a risk of ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Enable SLUB debugging support

    SLUB has extensive debug support features and this allows the allocator validation checking to be enabled. The configuration that was used to buil...
    Rule Medium Severity

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