ANSSI-BP-028 (high)
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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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 -
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 -
Warn on W+X mappings found at boot
Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. This configuration is available from kernel 5.8. The configuration that was used to buil...Rule Medium Severity -
Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows
Detect overflows of buffers in common string and memory functions where the compiler can determine and validate the buffer sizes. This configuratio...Rule Medium Severity -
Harden memory copies between kernel and userspace
This option checks for obviously wrong memory regions when copying memory to/from the kernel (via copy_to_user() and copy_from_user() functions) by...Rule High Severity -
Do not allow usercopy whitelist violations to fallback to object size
This is a temporary option that allows missing usercopy whitelists to be discovered via a WARN() to the kernel log, instead of rejecting the copy, ...Rule High Severity -
Disable vsyscall emulation
The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall address mapping. This configuration is available from kernel 5.3, but may be available ...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable vsyscall mapping
This config disables the vsyscall mapping at all. Attempts to use the vsyscalls will be reported to dmesg, so that either old or malicious userspac...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable vsyscall emulate execution only
The kernel traps and emulates calls into the fixed vsyscall address mapping and does not allow reads. This configuration is available from kernel 5...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable the LDT (local descriptor table)
Linux can allow user programs to install a per-process x86 Local Descriptor Table (LDT) using the modify_ldt(2) system call. This is required to ru...Rule Medium Severity
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