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Mail relaying must be restricted.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-38622 RHEL-06-000249 SV-50423r2_rule Medium
Description
This ensures "postfix" accepts mail messages (such as cron job reports) from the local system only, and not from the network, which protects it from network attack.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-04-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
None
Fix Text (F-43572r1_fix)
Edit the file "/etc/postfix/main.cf" to ensure that only the following "inet_interfaces" line appears:

inet_interfaces = localhost