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ANSSI-BP-028 (high)

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • 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 performance is not severily impacted. This configuratio...
    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 from kernel 4.11. The configuration that was used t...
    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 from kernel 4.11. The configuration that was used t...
    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 being able to connect to your computer during an ongoi...
    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 can be defended against by unmapping the kernel when...
    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 used to build kernel is available at <code>/boot/con...
    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 vsyscall. With this option set to N, offending pro...
    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 systems where there is little 'natural' source of e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures

    Randomize at compile-time the layouts of structures that are entirely function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly ma...
    Rule Medium Severity

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