From ec5fcf813b80347e5d8aa55dbd5d77860e62ccc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: madaidan <50278627+madaidan@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:50:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update control --- debian/control | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b604cb1..461f477 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ Description: enhances misc security settings * Bluetooth is blacklisted to reduce attack surface. Bluetooth also has a history of security concerns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#History_of_security_concerns + . + * A systemd service restricts /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/bus, /proc/scsi and + /sys to the root user only. This hides a lot of hardware identifiers from + unprivileged users and increases security as /sys exposes a lot of information + that shouldn't be accessible to unprivileged users. As this will break many + things, it is disabled by default and can optionally be enabled by running + `systemctl enable hide-hardware-info.service` as root. . Uncommon network protocols are blacklisted: These are rarely used and may have unknown vulnerabilities.