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The system must not respond to multicast echo requests.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Multicast echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.

ID
SV-216136r959010_rule
Version
SOL-11.1-050060
Severity
Low
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable respond to echo multi-cast for IPv4 and IPv6.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_echo_multicast=0 ipv4
# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_echo_multicast=0 ipv6