RHEL-06-000203 - The xinetd service must be disabled if no network services utilizing it are enabled - CHKCONFIG.

Information

The xinetd service provides a dedicated listener service for some programs, which is no longer necessary for commonly-used network services. Disabling it ensures that these uncommon services are not running, and also prevents attacks against xinetd itself.

Solution

The 'xinetd' service can be disabled with the following commands:

# chkconfig xinetd off
# service xinetd stop

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_6_V2R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-217981r603264_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-06-000203, STIG-Legacy|SV-50383, STIG-Legacy|V-38582, Vuln-ID|V-217981

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 5d8abc6cd558a0256fc9f694333846ee4d8c709bbbd4119a7734a362e619ddc5