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1.373 RHEL-10-701020

Information

RHEL 10 must enable mitigations against processor-based vulnerabilities.

GROUP ID: V-281304RULE ID: SV-281304r1167062

Kernel page-table isolation is a kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability and hardens the kernel against attempts to bypass kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR).

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000433-GPOS-00193, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to enable kernel page-table isolation with the following command:

$ sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="pti=on"

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26403

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|SI-16, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-002824, Rule-ID|SV-281304r1167062_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-701020, Vuln-ID|V-281304

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 0955f626754f4cb9deda9f276ee742d78925a06f7f0efa34fa0f9d967e5cdedc