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1.5.4 Ensure prelink is disabled

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Information

prelink is a program that modifies ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamically linked binaries in such a way that the time needed for the dynamic linker to perform relocations at startup significantly decreases. The prelinking feature can interfere with the operation of AIDE, because it changes binaries. Prelinking can also increase the vulnerability of the system if a malicious user is able to compromise a common library such as libc.

Solution

Run the following commands to restore binaries to normal and uninstall prelink: # prelink -ua# zypper remove prelink

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/1864

Item Details

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 377852f79961133c7d3aa154e8a2c9e627dd7c60eb132c65c843ade6f3be8e87