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1.123 SOL-11.1-050060

Information

The system must not respond to multicast echo requests.

GROUP ID: V-216373
RULE ID: SV-216373r959010

Multicast echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.

Solution

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable respond to echo multi-cast for IPv4 and IPv6.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_echo_multicast=0 ipv4
# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_echo_multicast=0 ipv6

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23765

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|III, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-216373r959010_rule, STIG-ID|SOL-11.1-050060, Vuln-ID|V-216373

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 2883e3ac7f402d6cc3fac187582944cad4fa06242d36a822defaafea3ffce4ae