The TSIG keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be group 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-207564r879613_rule
- Version
- BIND-9X-001111
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Change the group ownership of the TSIG keys to the named process group.
# chgrp <named_proccess_group> <TSIG_key_file>