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ANSSI-BP-028 (high)

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  • 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_l...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Poison kernel stack before returning from syscalls

    This option makes the kernel erase the kernel stack before returning from system calls. This has the effect of leaving the stack initialized to the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Force initialization of variables containing userspace addresses

    While the kernel is built with warnings enabled for any missed stack variable initializations, this warning is silenced for anything passed by refe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • zero-init everything passed by reference

    Zero-initialize any stack variables that may be passed by reference and had not already been explicitly initialized. This configuration is availabl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Syslog

    The syslog service has been the default Unix logging mechanism for many years. It has a number of downsides, including inconsistent log format, lac...
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