The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrtd) service must not be running.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38640	RHEL-06-000261	SV-50441r2_rule		Low

Description
Mishandling crash data could expose sensitive information about vulnerabilities in software executing on the local machine, as well as sensitive information from within a process's address space or registers.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-46200r1_chk )
To check that the "abrtd" service is disabled in system boot configuration, run the following command: # chkconfig "abrtd" --list Output should indicate the "abrtd" service has either not been installed, or has been disabled at all runlevels, as shown in the example below: # chkconfig "abrtd" --list "abrtd" 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off Run the following command to verify "abrtd" is disabled through current runtime configuration: # service abrtd status If the service is disabled the command will return the following output: abrtd is stopped If the service is running, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-46200r1_chk )

To check that the "abrtd" service is disabled in system boot configuration, run the following command:

# chkconfig "abrtd" --list

Output should indicate the "abrtd" service has either not been installed, or has been disabled at all runlevels, as shown in the example below:

# chkconfig "abrtd" --list
"abrtd" 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

Run the following command to verify "abrtd" is disabled through current runtime configuration:

# service abrtd status

If the service is disabled the command will return the following output:

abrtd is stopped

If the service is running, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43589r2_fix)
The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ("abrtd") daemon collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrtd can email crash reports to system administrators, log crash reports to files, or forward crash reports to a centralized issue tracking system such as RHTSupport. The "abrtd" service can be disabled with the following commands: # chkconfig abrtd off # service abrtd stop

Fix Text (F-43589r2_fix)

The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ("abrtd") daemon collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrtd can email crash reports to system administrators, log crash reports to files, or forward crash reports to a centralized issue tracking system such as RHTSupport. The "abrtd" service can be disabled with the following commands:

# chkconfig abrtd off
# service abrtd stop