ANSSI-BP-028 (high)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Stack Protector buffer overlow detection
This feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on the stack just before the return address, and validates the value just before a...Rule Medium Severity -
Strong Stack Protector
This features adds canary logic protection to more kinds of vulnerable functions than CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR, but not to all functions so that perfo...Rule Medium Severity -
Make the kernel text and rodata read-only
When set, kernel text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...Rule Medium Severity -
Make the module text and rodata read-only
When set, module text and rodata memory will be made read-only, and non-text memory will be made non-executable. This configuration is available fr...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable TCP/IP syncookie support
Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as SYN flooding. It is denial-of-service attack that prevents legitimate remote users from bein...Rule Medium Severity -
Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka KAISER)
Speculation attacks against some high-performance processors can be used to bypass MMU permission checks and leak kernel data to userspace. This ca...Rule Medium Severity -
User a virtually-mapped stack
Enable this to use virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages. This configuration is available from kernel 4.9. The configuration that was us...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable x86 vsyscall emulation
Disabling it is roughly equivalent to booting with vsyscall=none, except that it will also disable the helpful warning if a program tries to use a ...Rule Low Severity -
Kernel GCC plugin configuration
Contains rules that check the configuration of GCC plugins used by the compilerGroup -
Generate some entropy during boot and runtime
Instrument some kernel code to extract some entropy from both original and artificially created program state. This will help especially embedded s...Rule Medium Severity
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