System security patches and updates must be installed and up-to-date.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38481	RHEL-06-000011	SV-50281r1_rule		Medium

Description
Installing software updates is a fundamental mitigation against the exploitation of publicly-known vulnerabilities.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-12-03

Details

Check Text ( C-46036r1_chk )
If the system is joined to the Red Hat Network, a Red Hat Satellite Server, or a yum server which provides updates, invoking the following command will indicate if updates are available: # yum check-update If the system is not configured to update from one of these sources, run the following command to list when each package was last updated: $ rpm -qa -last Compare this to Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) listed at https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/active/ to determine whether the system is missing applicable security and bugfix updates. If updates are not installed, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-46036r1_chk )

If the system is joined to the Red Hat Network, a Red Hat Satellite Server, or a yum server which provides updates, invoking the following command will indicate if updates are available:

# yum check-update

If the system is not configured to update from one of these sources, run the following command to list when each package was last updated:

$ rpm -qa -last

Compare this to Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) listed at https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/active/ to determine whether the system is missing applicable security and bugfix updates.
If updates are not installed, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43426r1_fix)
If the system is joined to the Red Hat Network, a Red Hat Satellite Server, or a yum server, run the following command to install updates: # yum update If the system is not configured to use one of these sources, updates (in the form of RPM packages) can be manually downloaded from the Red Hat Network and installed using "rpm".