Ensure mounting of FAT filesystems is limited – modprobe msdos Details The FAT filesystem format is primarily used on older windows systems and portable USB drives or flash modules. It...
Ensure mounting of FAT filesystems is limited – modprobe vfat Details The FAT filesystem format is primarily used on older windows systems and portable USB drives or flash modules. It...
Ensure mounting of squashfs filesystems is disabled Details The squashfs filesystem type is a compressed read-only Linux filesystem embedded in small footprint systems (similar to cramfs). A...
Ensure SCTP is disabled – lsmod Details The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport layer protocol used to support message oriented communication, with several...
Ensure SCTP is disabled – modprobe Details The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport layer protocol used to support message oriented communication, with several...
Ensure separate partition exists for /home Details The /home directory is used to support disk storage needs of local users. Rationale: If the system is intended...
Ensure separate partition exists for /var Details The /var directory is used by daemons and other system services to temporarily store dynamic data. Some directories created...
Ensure separate partition exists for /var/log Details The /var/log directory is used by system services to store log data. Rationale: There are two important reasons to...
Ensure separate partition exists for /var/log/audit Details The auditing daemon, auditd , stores log data in the /var/log/audit directory. Note: When modifying /var/log/audit it is advisable...
Ensure separate partition exists for /var/tmp Details The /var/tmp directory is a world-writable directory used for temporary storage by all users and some applications and is...