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ANSSI-BP-028 (high)

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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 compiler
    Group
  • 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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