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1.260 OL09-00-002320

Information

OL 9 must disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server.

GROUP ID: V-271697
RULE ID: SV-271697r1184202

Minimizing the exposure of the server functionality of the chrony daemon diminishes the attack surface.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050, SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

Solution

Configure OL 9 to disable the chrony daemon from acting as a server by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/chrony.conf file:

port 0

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., 800-53|CM-7b., CCI|CCI-000381, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-271697r1184202_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-002320, Vuln-ID|V-271697

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 195468c62a9159e5b2028369196232f174b036b08e6333d77f80b5853a4f27b9