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Configure Denying Router Solicitations on All IPv6 Interfaces By Default

An XCCDF Rule

Description

To set the runtime status of the net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations kernel parameter, run the following command:
$ sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations=0
To make sure that the setting is persistent, add the following line to a file in the directory /etc/sysctl.d:
net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations = 0

Rationale

To prevent discovery of the system by other systems, router solicitation requests should be denied.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_sysctl_net_ipv6_conf_default_router_solicitations
Severity
Unknown
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

An Ansible Snippet

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto
  tags:
  - CCE-91528-0
  - disable_strategy

A Shell Script

# Remediation is applicable only in certain platforms
if rpm --quiet -q kernel-default; then
# Comment out any occurrences of net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations from /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf files

for f in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf /run/sysctl.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf /lib/sysctl.d/*.conf; do