ANSSI-BP-028 (intermediary)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Configure the confidence in TPM for entropy
The TPM security chip that is available in most modern systems has a hardware RNG. It is also used to feed the entropy pool, but generally not credited entropy. Use <code>rng_core.default_quality<...Rule Low Severity -
Disable merging of slabs with similar size
The kernel may merge similar slabs together to reduce overhead and increase cache hotness of objects. Disabling merging of slabs keeps the slabs separate and reduces the risk of kernel heap overflo...Rule Medium Severity -
Configure Speculative Store Bypass Mitigation
Certain CPUs are vulnerable to an exploit against a common wide industry wide performance optimization known as Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). In such cases, recent stores to the same memory loca...Rule Medium Severity -
Enforce Spectre v2 mitigation
Spectre V2 is an indirect branch poisoning attack that can lead to data leakage. An exploit for Spectre V2 tricks the indirect branch predictor into executing code from a future indirect branch cho...Rule High Severity -
Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration
Non-UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configurationGroup -
Set Boot Loader Password in grub2
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br> <br> Since plaintext passwords are a security risk, generate a hash...Rule High Severity -
UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configuration
UEFI GRUB2 bootloader configurationGroup -
Set the UEFI Boot Loader Password
The grub2 boot loader should have a superuser account and password protection enabled to protect boot-time settings. <br> <br> Since plaintext passwords are a security risk, generate a hash...Rule High Severity -
Network Configuration and Firewalls
Most systems must be connected to a network of some sort, and this brings with it the substantial risk of network attack. This section discusses the security impact of decisions about networking wh...Group -
IPSec Support
Support for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is provided with Libreswan.Group
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