STIGUI
V-207504CAT II — Medium severitySV-207504r958928_rule

The VMM must implement address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.

Rule version SRG-OS-000433-VMM-001750 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-04

Discussion

Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in non-executable regions of memory or in memory locations that are prohibited. Data execution prevention safeguards can either be hardware-enforced or software-enforced with hardware providing the greater strength of mechanism.

Examples of attacks are buffer overflow attacks.

Check

Verify the VMM implements address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.

If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the VMM to implement address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-207504
Group title
SRG-OS-000433
Rule ID
SV-207504r958928_rule
Check ID
C-7761r365916_chk
Fix ID
F-7761r365917_fix