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The system must not have Teredo enabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-22546 GEN007800 SV-37611r1_rule ECSC-1 Medium
Description
Teredo is an IPv6 transition mechanism involving tunneling IPv6 packets encapsulated in IPv4 packets. Unauthorized tunneling may circumvent network security.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-03-01

Details

Check Text ( C-36805r1_chk )
Verify the Miredo service is not running.
# ps ax | grep miredo | grep -v grep
If the miredo process is running, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-31647r1_fix)
Edit startup scripts to prevent the service from running on startup.