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The root account's list of preloaded libraries must be empty.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-22311 GEN000950 SV-26357r1_rule ECSC-1 Medium
Description
The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the libraries required by the binary. If this list contains paths to libraries relative to the current working directory, unintended libraries may be preloaded. This variable is formatted as a space-separated list of libraries. Paths starting with (/) are absolute paths.
STIG Date
SOLARIS 10 SPARC SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 2015-09-04

Details

Check Text ( None )
None
Fix Text (F-23540r1_fix)
Edit the root user initialization files and remove any definition of LD_PRELOAD.