The root account's library search path must be the system default and must contain only absolute paths.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-22310	GEN000945	SV-37363r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
The library search path environment variable(s) contain a list of directories for the dynamic linker to search to find libraries. If this path includes the current working directory or other relative paths, libraries in these directories may be loaded instead of system libraries. This variable is formatted as a colon-separated list of directories. If there is an empty entry, such as a leading or trailing colon or two consecutive colons, this is interpreted as the current working directory. Entries starting with a slash (/) are absolute paths.

Description

The library search path environment variable(s) contain a list of directories for the dynamic linker to search to find libraries. If this path includes the current working directory or other relative paths, libraries in these directories may be loaded instead of system libraries. This variable is formatted as a colon-separated list of directories. If there is an empty entry, such as a leading or trailing colon or two consecutive colons, this is interpreted as the current working directory. Entries starting with a slash (/) are absolute paths.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2016-12-16

Details

Check Text ( C-36052r1_chk )
Check the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is empty or not defined for the root user. # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH If a path list is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31296r1_fix)
Edit the root user initialization files and remove any definition of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.