CCE-90689-1| Platform: rhel7,centos7 | Date: (C)2017-06-29 (M)2022-10-10 |
Add nosuid Option to /dev/shm
The 'nosuid' mount option can be used to prevent execution
of setuid programs in '/dev/shm'. The SUID and SGID permissions should not
be required in these world-writable directories.
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Technical Mechanism:
Add the 'nosuid' option to the fourth column of '/etc/fstab' for the line which controls mounting of '/dev/shm'.
Rationale:
The presence of SUID and SGID executables should be tightly controlled. Users
should not be able to execute SUID or SGID binaries from temporary storage partitions.
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| SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:31103 |
| SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:30380 |
