I don't recall, honestly.  Removable partitions are called out in the CCI mappings: 
http://scap-securityguide.rhcloud.com/RHEL6/output/table-rhel6-srgmap.html

and the draft settings for the STIG:
http://scap-securityguide.rhcloud.com/RHEL6/output/table-stig-rhel6.html


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Shawn Wells <shawn@redhat.com> wrote:

On 7/3/14, 11:46 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Thursday, July 03, 2014 04:21:05 PM Stuart Green wrote:
> One of the hardening parameters we use to stop execution of programs on 
> certain partitions is noexec in fstab, this is a general C.I.S 
> requirement.  I believe the only requirement advising this in the 
> context of this list is to do with Removable Media Partitions.
Generally you would want anywhere a program can be compiled because the 
directory is writable by anyone. For example, /tmp, /var/tmp, /dev/shm.

Right. We've content for removable partitions:
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/input/system/permissions/partitions.xml#L54#L74

/tmp:
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/input/system/permissions/partitions.xml#L110#L122

and /dev/shm:
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/input/system/permissions/partitions.xml#L153#L166

/var/tmp is bind mounted to /tmp, hence no callout for noexec:
https://github.com/OpenSCAP/scap-security-guide/blob/master/RHEL/6/input/system/permissions/partitions.xml#L182#L197

Interestingly, only /tmp is called out in the STIG (inherited from common)... and I don't remember why the others aren't. Especially removable partitions.

Jeff? Dave? FSO?



> I've noted myself that you can still execute bash scripts in these 
> partitions by utilising /bin/sh  (bash),  in our environment /bin/sh is 
> set to -rwxr-xr-x which I belive is an OOB setting, should this be 
> refined to something more strict?
Actually, you need to think about this a bit. The script is not executing, its 
being interpreted. The interpreter is executed. There is no way short of 
patching all interpreters to look at the partition flags to decide if it should 
interpret the script based on its path. Even so, you can have commands passed 
over stdin with cat and hide the location it comes from.

So, I understand the concern but the reality is that its virtually impossible 
to lock down.