On 4/20/13 12:03 AM, Shawn Wells wrote:

0001-bugfix-Ticket-170-False-Positive-postfix_server_deni.patch

From ec91408a4d124f9645982a436da039f774896387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shawn Wells <shawn@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:02:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [bugfix] Ticket 170 - False Positive - postfix_server_denial_of_service
 Test should first check if Postfix is installed and running

---
 .../checks/postfix_server_denial_of_service.xml    |   21 ++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RHEL6/input/checks/postfix_server_denial_of_service.xml b/RHEL6/input/checks/postfix_server_denial_of_service.xml
index dbcae5c..f863800 100644
--- a/RHEL6/input/checks/postfix_server_denial_of_service.xml
+++ b/RHEL6/input/checks/postfix_server_denial_of_service.xml
@@ -8,14 +8,19 @@
       </affected>
       <description>Protect against attempts to reduce availability of network resources.</description>
     </metadata>
-    <criteria operator="AND">
-      <criterion comment="Limit smtp recipients"  test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_recipient_limit" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit message size"     test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_message_size_limit" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit header size"      test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_header_size_limit" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit queue"            test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_queue_minfree" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit connection rate"  test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit connection count" test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_client_connection_count_limit" />
-      <criterion comment="Limit proc count"       test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_default_process_limit" />
+    <criteria comment="Postfix installed and service is configured to start" operator="AND">
+      <!-- NOTE: The package install check is inherited from service_postfix_enabled -->
+      <extend_definition comment="postfix configured to start" definition_ref="service_postfix_enabled" />
+
+      <criteria operator="AND">
+        <criterion comment="Limit smtp recipients"  test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_recipient_limit" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit message size"     test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_message_size_limit" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit header size"      test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_header_size_limit" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit queue"            test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_queue_minfree" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit connection rate"  test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit connection count" test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_smtpd_client_connection_count_limit" />
+        <criterion comment="Limit proc count"       test_ref="test_postfix_server_denial_of_service_default_process_limit" />
+      </criteria>
     </criteria>
   </definition>
 
-- 1.7.1
pushed as bugfix

[shawn@rhel6 scap-security-guide]$ git push
Counting objects: 11, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 805 bytes, done.
Total 6 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ssh://git.fedorahosted.org/git/scap-security-guide.git
   3d5c7ff..16b19ff  master -> master