Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Verify File Permissions Within Some Important Directories
Some directories contain files whose confidentiality or integrity is notably important and may also be susceptible to misconfiguration over time, p...Group -
Verify Any Configured IPSec Tunnel Connections
Libreswan provides an implementation of IPsec and IKE, which permits the creation of secure tunnels over untrusted networks. As such, IPsec can be ...Rule Medium Severity -
iptables and ip6tables
A host-based firewall called <code>netfilter</code> is included as part of the Linux kernel distributed with the system. It is activated by default...Group -
Verify Permissions On /etc/iptables Directory
To properly set the permissions of/etc/iptables
, run the command:$ sudo chmod 0700 /etc/iptables
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Verify Group Who Owns /etc/iptables Directory
To properly set the group owner of/etc/iptables
, run the command:$ sudo chgrp root /etc/iptables
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Verify User Who Owns /etc/iptables Directory
To properly set the owner of/etc/iptables
, run the command:$ sudo chown root /etc/iptables
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IPv6
The system includes support for Internet Protocol version 6. A major and often-mentioned improvement over IPv4 is its enormous increase in the numb...Group -
Configure IPv6 Settings if Necessary
A major feature of IPv6 is the extent to which systems implementing it can automatically configure their networking devices using information from ...Group -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra_defrtr
Accept default router in router advertisements?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra_pinfo
Accept prefix information in router advertisements?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra_rtr_pref
Accept router preference in router advertisements?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra
Accept all router advertisements?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects
Toggle ICMP Redirect AcceptanceValue -
net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_source_route
Trackers could be using source-routed packets to generate traffic that seems to be intra-net, but actually was created outside and has been redirec...Value -
net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf
Enable auto configuration on IPv6 interfacesValue -
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding
Toggle IPv6 ForwardingValue -
net.ipv6.conf.all.max_addresses
Maximum number of autoconfigured IPv6 addressesValue -
net.ipv6.conf.all.router_solicitations
Accept all router solicitations?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_defrtr
Accept default router in router advertisements?Value -
net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_pinfo
Accept prefix information in router advertisements?Value
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