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Created attachment 758908 [details]
RHEL6 STIG patch

Description of problem:

The default configuration is not conforming to best practices. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) v1.2 published by the Defense Information Systems Agency recommends the changes in the attached patch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/initscripts-9.03.38-1.el6_4.1.src.rpm

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

perform a yum install

Actual results:

root@test /tmp/setup
# sysctl net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects = 1

Expected results:

$ sysctl net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects

The output of the command should indicate a value of "0". If this value is not the default value, investigate how it could have been adjusted at runtime, and verify it is not set improperly in "/etc/sysctl.conf".

Additional info:

see: http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/os/unix/red_hat.html

Created attachment 758909 [details]
specfile patch

Hi, this bug changes the default behaviour of the system and we don't think it is appropriate to do this in a midstream RHEL 6 release.