Inetd and xinetd must be disabled or removed if no network services utilizing them are enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-12005	GEN003700	SV-45756r1_rule		Medium

Description
Unnecessary services should be disabled to decrease the attack surface of the system.

STIG	Date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z Security Technical Implementation Guide	2018-09-19

Details

Check Text ( C-43109r1_chk )
# ps -ef |grep xinetd If xinetd is not running, this check is not a finding. # grep -v "^#" /etc/xinetd.conf # grep disable /etc/xinetd.d/* |grep no If no active services are found, and the inetd daemon is running, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-39155r1_fix)
# rcxinetd stop; insserv -r xinetd OR # service xinetd stop ; chkconfig xinetd off