Enable Randomized Virtual Memory Region Placement (Scored) Set the system flag to force randomized virtual memory region placement. [don't_use_ASLR/randomize base address for mmap'd areas/ditto, and also randomize the brk base address] Randomly placing virtual memory regions will make it difficult to write memory page exploits as the memory placement will be consistently shifting. Fix: Add the following line to the /etc/sysctl.conf file. kernel.randomize_va_space = 2 oval:org.secpod.oval:def:33854 SCAP Repo OVAL Definition 2016-04-19