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GEN005280 - The system must not have the UUCP service active.

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Information

The UUCP utility is designed to assist in transferring files, executing remote commands, and sending e-mail between UNIX systems over phone lines and direct connections between systems. The UUCP utility is a primitive and arcane system with many security issues. There are alternate data transfer utilities/products that can be configured to more securely transfer data by providing for authentication as well as encryption.

Solution

# chkconfig uucp off
# service uucp stop
# service xinetd restart

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_5_V1R14_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001436, CSCv6|9.1, Rule-ID|SV-63353r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN005280, Vuln-ID|V-4696

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d1f5417fa8473918bde8d7e5caa8aa223155ecc14d7dac27b05da36c23740473