nixpkgs-suyu/nixos/modules/profiles/hardened.nix
Joachim Fasting ea4f371627
nixos/security/misc: expose SMT control option
For the hardened profile disable symmetric multi threading.  There seems to be
no *proven* method of exploiting cache sharing between threads on the same CPU
core, so this may be considered quite paranoid, considering the perf cost.
SMT can be controlled at runtime, however.  This is in keeping with OpenBSD
defaults.

TODO: since SMT is left to be controlled at runtime, changing the option
definition should take effect on system activation.  Write to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
2018-12-27 15:00:49 +01:00

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# A profile with most (vanilla) hardening options enabled by default,
# potentially at the cost of features and performance.
{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
{
meta = {
maintainers = [ maintainers.joachifm ];
};
boot.kernelPackages = mkDefault pkgs.linuxPackages_hardened;
nix.allowedUsers = mkDefault [ "@users" ];
security.hideProcessInformation = mkDefault true;
security.lockKernelModules = mkDefault true;
security.allowUserNamespaces = mkDefault false;
security.protectKernelImage = mkDefault true;
security.allowSimultaneousMultithreading = mkDefault false;
security.virtualization.flushL1DataCache = mkDefault "always";
security.apparmor.enable = mkDefault true;
boot.kernelParams = [
# Overwrite free'd memory
"page_poison=1"
# Disable legacy virtual syscalls
"vsyscall=none"
];
boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [
# Obscure network protocols
"ax25"
"netrom"
"rose"
];
# Restrict ptrace() usage to processes with a pre-defined relationship
# (e.g., parent/child)
boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.yama.ptrace_scope" = mkOverride 500 1;
# Restrict access to kernel ring buffer (information leaks)
boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.dmesg_restrict" = mkDefault true;
# Hide kptrs even for processes with CAP_SYSLOG
boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.kptr_restrict" = mkOverride 500 2;
# Unprivileged access to bpf() has been used for privilege escalation in
# the past
boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled" = mkDefault true;
# Disable bpf() JIT (to eliminate spray attacks)
boot.kernel.sysctl."net.core.bpf_jit_enable" = mkDefault false;
# ... or at least apply some hardening to it
boot.kernel.sysctl."net.core.bpf_jit_harden" = mkDefault true;
# Raise ASLR entropy for 64bit & 32bit, respectively.
#
# Note: mmap_rnd_compat_bits may not exist on 64bit.
boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.mmap_rnd_bits" = mkDefault 32;
boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits" = mkDefault 16;
# Allowing users to mmap() memory starting at virtual address 0 can turn a
# NULL dereference bug in the kernel into code execution with elevated
# privilege. Mitigate by enforcing a minimum base addr beyond the NULL memory
# space. This breaks applications that require mapping the 0 page, such as
# dosemu or running 16bit applications under wine. It also breaks older
# versions of qemu.
#
# The value is taken from the KSPP recommendations (Debian uses 4096).
boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.mmap_min_addr" = mkDefault 65536;
}