ANSSI-BP-028 (high)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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Kernel Configuration
Contains rules that check the kernel configuration that was used to build it.Group -
Do not allow ACPI methods to be inserted/replaced at run time
This debug facility allows ACPI AML methods to be inserted and/or replaced without rebooting the system. This configuration is available from kerne...Rule Low Severity -
Emulate Privileged Access Never (PAN)
Enabling this option prevents the kernel from accessing user-space memory directly by pointing TTBR0_EL1 to a reserved zeroed area and reserved ASI...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable kernel support for MISC binaries
Enabling <code>CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC</code> makes it possible to plug wrapper-driven binary formats into the kernel. This is specially useful for prog...Rule Medium Severity -
Enable support for BUG()
Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring numerous fatal c...Rule Medium Severity -
Trigger a kernel BUG when data corruption is detected
This option makes the kernel BUG when it encounters data corruption in kernel memory structures when they get checked for validity. This configurat...Rule Low Severity -
Disable compatibility with brk()
Enabling compatiliby with <code>brk()</code> allows legacy binaries to run (i.e. those linked against libc5). But this compatibility comes at the c...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable the 32-bit vDSO
Certain buggy versions of glibc (2.3.3) will crash if they are presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address indicated in its segm...Rule Low Severity -
Enable checks on credential management
Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential management. The additional code keeps track of the number of pointers from task_structs t...Rule Low Severity -
Disable kernel debugfs
<code>debugfs</code> is a virtual file system that kernel developers use to put debugging files into. Enable this option to be able to read and wri...Rule Low Severity
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