Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Verify ip6tables Enabled if Using IPv6
The <code>ip6tables</code> service can be enabled with the following manifest: <pre> --- apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: Ma...Rule Medium Severity -
Verify iptables Enabled
The <code>iptables</code> service can be enabled with the following manifest: <pre> --- apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1 kind: Mac...Rule Medium Severity -
Set Default ip6tables Policy for Incoming Packets
To set the default policy to DROP (instead of ACCEPT) for the built-in INPUT chain which processes incoming packets, add or correct the following l...Rule Medium Severity -
Disable IPv6 Networking Support Automatic Loading
To prevent the IPv6 kernel module (<code>ipv6</code>) from binding to the IPv6 networking stack, add the following line to <code>/etc/modprobe.d/di...Rule Medium Severity -
Strengthen the Default Ruleset
The default rules can be strengthened. The system scripts that activate the firewall rules expect them to be defined in the configuration files <co...Group -
Set Default iptables Policy for Incoming Packets
To set the default policy to DROP (instead of ACCEPT) for the built-in INPUT chain which processes incoming packets, add or correct the following l...Rule Medium Severity -
Set Default iptables Policy for Forwarded Packets
To set the default policy to DROP (instead of ACCEPT) for the built-in FORWARD chain which processes packets that will be forwarded from one interf...Rule Medium Severity -
Restrict ICMP Message Types
In <code>/etc/sysconfig/iptables</code>, the accepted ICMP messages types can be restricted. To accept only ICMP echo reply, destination unreachabl...Group -
Log and Drop Packets with Suspicious Source Addresses
Packets with non-routable source addresses should be rejected, as they may indicate spoofing. Because the modified policy will reject non-matching ...Group -
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
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