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Uninstall Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrt)

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrt) collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrt can email crash reports to system administrators, log crash reports to files, or forward crash reports to a centralized issue tracking system such as RHTSupport. The abrt package can be removed with the following command: 

$ sudo yum erase abrt

Rationale

Mishandling crash data could expose sensitive information about vulnerabilities in software executing on the system, as well as sensitive information from within a process's address space or registers.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_package_abrt_removed
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Anaconda Pre-Install Instructions


package --remove=abrt

Remediation - Ansible

- name: Ensure abrt is removed
  package:
    name: abrt
    state: absent
  tags:
  - CCE-81040-8

Remediation - Puppet

include remove_abrt

class remove_abrt {
  package { 'abrt':
    ensure => 'purged',
  }

Remediation - Shell Script


# CAUTION: This remediation script will remove abrt
#	   from the system, and may remove any packages
#	   that depend on abrt. Execute this
#	   remediation AFTER testing on a non-production
#	   system!