Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
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V-11994 | GEN003040 | SV-45585r1_rule | Medium |
Description |
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To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured. |
STIG | Date |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z | 2016-12-20 |
Check Text ( C-42938r1_chk ) |
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List all crontabs on the system. # ls -lL /var/spool/cron /var/spool/cron/tabs # ls -lL /etc/crontab /etc/cron.{d,daily,hourly,monthly,weekly} or # ls -lL /etc/cron*|grep -v deny If any crontab is not owned by root or the creating user, this is a finding |
Fix Text (F-38981r1_fix) |
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Change the crontab owner to root or the crontab creator. # chown root or # chown |