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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Firewalld Must Employ a Deny-all, Allow-by-exception Policy for Allowing Connections to Other Systems

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 incorporates the "firewalld" daemon, which allows for many different configurations. One of these configurations is zone...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Firewalld to Restrict Loopback Traffic

    Configure <code>firewalld</code> to restrict loopback traffic to the <code>lo</code> interface. The loopback traffic must be trusted by assigning ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Configure Firewalld to Trust Loopback Traffic

    Assign loopback interface to the <code>firewalld</code> <code>trusted</code> zone in order to explicitly allow the loopback traffic in the system. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Set Default firewalld Zone for Incoming Packets

    To set the default zone to <code>drop</code> for the built-in default zone which processes incoming IPv4 and IPv6 packets, modify the following lin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • IPSec Support

    Support for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is provided with Libreswan.
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