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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The Oracle Linux operating system must be configured so that the SSH daemon uses privilege separation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;SSH daemon privilege separation causes the SSH process to drop root privileges when not needed, which would decrease the impa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The Oracle Linux operating system must be configured so that the SSH daemon does not allow compression or only allows compression after successful authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If compression is allowed in an SSH connection prior to authentication, vulnerabilities in the compression software could res...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000355-GPOS-00143

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    Group
  • The Oracle Linux operating system must, for networked systems, synchronize clocks with a server that is synchronized to one of the redundant United States Naval Observatory (USNO) time servers, a time server designated for the appropriate DoD network (NIPRNet/SIPRNet), and/or the Global Positioning System (GPS).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the cor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186

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    Group
  • The Oracle Linux operating system must protect against or limit the effects of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by validating the operating system is implementing rate-limiting measures on impacted network interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot ac...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The Oracle Linux operating system must enable an application firewall, if available.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Firewalls protect computers from network attacks by blocking or limiting access to open network ports. Application firewalls ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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