The system must not send ICMPv4 redirects by default.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38600	RHEL-06-000080	SV-50401r1_rule		Medium

Description
Sending ICMP redirects permits the system to instruct other systems to update their routing information. The ability to send ICMP redirects is only appropriate for routers.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-06-03

Details

Check Text ( C-46157r1_chk )
The status of the "net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects" kernel parameter can be queried by running the following command: $ sysctl net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects The output of the command should indicate a value of "0". If this value is not the default value, investigate how it could have been adjusted at runtime, and verify it is not set improperly in "/etc/sysctl.conf". If the correct value is not returned, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-46157r1_chk )

The status of the "net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects" kernel parameter can be queried by running the following command:

$ sysctl net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects

The output of the command should indicate a value of "0". If this value is not the default value, investigate how it could have been adjusted at runtime, and verify it is not set improperly in "/etc/sysctl.conf".
If the correct value is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43547r1_fix)
To set the runtime status of the "net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects" kernel parameter, run the following command: # sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects=0 If this is not the system's default value, add the following line to "/etc/sysctl.conf": net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 0