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 )....
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...
Ensure system is disabled when audit logs are full – action_mail_acct Details The auditd daemon can be configured to halt the system when the audit logs are full. Rationale: In high...
Ensure system is disabled when audit logs are full – admin_space_left_action Details The auditd daemon can be configured to halt the system when the audit logs are full. Rationale: In high...