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Standard System Security Profile for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • Add nodev Option to /dev/shm

    The <code>nodev</code> mount option can be used to prevent creation of device files in <code>/dev/shm</code>. Legitimate character and block devices should not exist within temporary directories li...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Add nosuid Option to /dev/shm

    The <code>nosuid</code> mount option can be used to prevent execution of setuid programs in <code>/dev/shm</code>. The SUID and SGID permissions should not be required in these world-writable dire...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Services

    The best protection against vulnerable software is running less software. This section describes how to review the software which Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installs on a system and disable softwar...
    Group
  • Base Services

    This section addresses the base services that are installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 default installation which are not covered in other sections. Some of these services listen on the networ...
    Group
  • Disable Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrtd)

    The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (<code>abrtd</code>) daemon collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrtd can email crash reports to syst...
    Rule Medium Severity

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