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The netconsole service must be disabled unless required.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-38672 RHEL-06-000289 SV-50473r2_rule Low
Description
The "netconsole" service is not necessary unless there is a need to debug kernel panics, which is not common.
STIG Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2017-04-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
None
Fix Text (F-43622r2_fix)
The "netconsole" service is responsible for loading the netconsole kernel module, which logs kernel printk messages over UDP to a syslog server. This allows debugging of problems where disk logging fails and serial consoles are impractical. The "netconsole" service can be disabled with the following commands:

# chkconfig netconsole off
# service netconsole stop