System packages must be configured with the vendor-provided files, permissions, and ownerships.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-216285	SOL-11.1-020080	SV-216285r958634_rule		Medium

Description
Failure to maintain system configurations may result in privilege escalation.

STIG	Date
Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-05-30

Details

Check Text ( C-17521r370943_chk )
The Software Installation Profile is required. Determine what the signature policy is for pkg publishers: # pkg property \| grep signature-policy Check that output produces: signature-policy verify If the output does not confirm that signature-policy verify is active, this is a finding. Check that package permissions are configured and signed per vendor requirements. # pkg verify If the command produces any output unrelated to STIG changes, this is a finding. There is currently a Solaris 11 bug 16267888 which reports pkg verify errors for a variety of python packages. These can be ignored.

Check Text ( C-17521r370943_chk )

The Software Installation Profile is required.

Determine what the signature policy is for pkg publishers:

# pkg property | grep signature-policy

Check that output produces:

signature-policy verify

If the output does not confirm that signature-policy verify is active, this is a finding.

Check that package permissions are configured and signed per vendor requirements.

# pkg verify

If the command produces any output unrelated to STIG changes, this is a finding.

There is currently a Solaris 11 bug 16267888 which reports pkg verify errors for a variety of python packages. These can be ignored.

Fix Text (F-17519r370944_fix)
The Software Installation Profile is required. Configure the package system to ensure that digital signatures are verified. # pfexec pkg set-property signature-policy verify Check that package permissions are configured per vendor requirements. # pfexec pkg verify If any errors are reported unrelated to STIG changes, use: # pfexec pkg fix to bring configuration settings and permissions into factory compliance.

Fix Text (F-17519r370944_fix)

The Software Installation Profile is required.

Configure the package system to ensure that digital signatures are verified.

# pfexec pkg set-property signature-policy verify

Check that package permissions are configured per vendor requirements.

# pfexec pkg verify

If any errors are reported unrelated to STIG changes, use:

# pfexec pkg fix

to bring configuration settings and permissions into factory compliance.