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Hardening Arch Linux
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I will describe settings that are not so easy to google and a few new thoughts.
kptr restrict:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/security
https://lwn.net/Articles/420403/
Kexec:
You may google about mechanics, but basically, it is just a mechanism to 'reexec' your kernel to something different, usually another kernel, but you can boot netboot.xyz, for example.
But now imagine that it will boot a kernel that will dump the output of all your traffic, or will dump all your keyboard keypresses (keylogger).
These are unlikely scenarios. But I prefer to disable this feature since I don't use it anyway.
Also, about keyloggers. Any program inside your X session may grab all your keyboard events. Literally last week I wrote a keylogger in rust in 70 lines of code. Therefore, use Wayland.
Ebpf JIT:
There I misleaded you.
There is some new information about JIT and security. See https://youtu.be/kvt4wdXEuRU?si=3imn8PAEbvgjWTU3
According to the update, you need to set bpf_jit_harden=2 and unprivileged_bpf_disabled=1. (Even unprivileged ebpf may crash your kernel. For some unknown reason, this is not recognized as a problem.)
Randomize virtual memory address:
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/address-space-layout-randomization-ASLR#:~:text=Address%20space%20layout%20randomization%20(ASLR)%20is%20a%20memory%2Dprotection,executables%20are%20loaded%20into%20memory.
systemd
If you use systemd your can use systemd-analyze tool to harden your units settings.
Also, I remember the tool you can use.
There are some security certifications - most used are pcidss or stig. There are guidelines to improve security.
You can use openscap with a profile (pcidss or stig or both) and it will check if your system satisfies these guidelines.
This may give you some thoughts.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/kvt4wdXEuRU?si=3imn8PAEbvgjWTU3
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Thank you very much for this detailed explanation! Looks like kptr and kexec are already disabled and enabled randomized virtual memory address in the hardened kernel. I will check for ebpf. Security certs seem interesting, I will defenetly look into them.