III - Administrative Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SUSE operating system file systems that are being imported via Network File System (NFS) must be mounted to prevent files with the setuid and setgid bit set from being executed.
<VulnDiscussion>The "nosuid" mount option causes the system to not execute "setuid" and "setgid" files with owner privileges. This option mus...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SUSE operating system file systems that are being imported via Network File System (NFS) must be mounted to prevent binary files from being executed.
<VulnDiscussion>The "noexec" mount option causes the system to not execute binary files. This option must be used for mounting any file syste...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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All SUSE operating system world-writable directories must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or an application group.
<VulnDiscussion>If a world-writable directory has the sticky bit set and is not group-owned by a privileged Group Identifier (GID), unauthori...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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SUSE operating system kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps may consume a co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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A separate file system must be used for SUSE operating system user home directories (such as /home or an equivalent).
<VulnDiscussion>The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becomi...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must use a separate file system for /var.
<VulnDiscussion>The use of separate file systems for different paths can protect the system from failures resulting from a file system becomi...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must be configured to not overwrite Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) configuration on package changes.
<VulnDiscussion>The "pam-config" command line utility automatically generates a system PAM configuration as packages are installed, updated, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must be configured to not allow authentication using known hosts authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring this setting for the SSH daemon provides additional assurance that remote logon via SSH will require a password, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon public host key files must have mode 0644 or less permissive.
<VulnDiscussion>If a public host key file is modified by an unauthorized user, the SSH service may be compromised.</VulnDiscussion><...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon private host key files must have mode 0640 or less permissive.
<VulnDiscussion>If an unauthorized user obtains the private SSH host key file, the host could be impersonated.</VulnDiscussion><Fals...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must perform strict mode checking of home directory configuration files.
<VulnDiscussion>If other users have access to modify user-specific SSH configuration files, they may be able to log on to the system as anoth...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system SSH daemon must disable forwarded remote X connections for interactive users, unless to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>The security risk of using X11 forwarding is that the client's X11 display server may be exposed to attack when the SSH clien...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) source-routed packets.
<VulnDiscussion>Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest that routers forward the packet along a different path than c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source-routed packets.
<VulnDiscussion>Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest that routers forward the packet along a different path than c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) source-routed packets by default.
<VulnDiscussion>Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest that routers forward the packet along a different path than c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not forward Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source-routed packets by default.
<VulnDiscussion>Source-routed packets allow the source of the packet to suggest that routers forward the packet along a different path than c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must prevent Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages from being accepted.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to accept Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must prevent Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages from being accepted.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to accept Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not allow interfaces to send Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages by default.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not send Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects.
<VulnDiscussion>ICMP redirect messages are used by routers to inform hosts that a more direct route exists for a particular destination. Thes...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) packet forwarding unless the system is a router.
<VulnDiscussion>Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
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The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet forwarding unless the system is a router.
<VulnDiscussion>Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The SUSE operating system must not be performing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet forwarding by default unless the system is a router.
<VulnDiscussion>Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this s...Rule Medium Severity
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