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The TSIG keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be owned by a privileged account.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Incorrect ownership of a TSIG key file could allow an adversary to modify the file, thus defeating the security objective.

ID
SV-207563r879613_rule
Version
BIND-9X-001110
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Change the ownership of the TSIG keys to the named process is running as.

# chown <named_proccess_owner> <TSIG_key_file>.