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The system must not respond to ICMP timestamp requests.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

By accurately determining the system's clock state, an attacker can more effectively attack certain time-based pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) and the authentication systems that rely on them.

ID
SV-216132r959010_rule
Version
SOL-11.1-050020
Severity
Low
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable source respond to timestamp.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_timestamp=0 ip