[PATCH 6/7] updates to consensus notes from most recent call

Jeffrey Blank blank at eclipse.ncsc.mil
Fri Oct 19 17:09:36 UTC 2012


Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Blank <blank at eclipse.ncsc.mil>
---
 RHEL6/input/auxiliary/transition_notes.xml |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 RHEL6/input/system/network/kernel.xml      |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RHEL6/input/auxiliary/transition_notes.xml b/RHEL6/input/auxiliary/transition_notes.xml
index 4b23d50..b4283f3 100644
--- a/RHEL6/input/auxiliary/transition_notes.xml
+++ b/RHEL6/input/auxiliary/transition_notes.xml
@@ -744,8 +744,29 @@ This is a manual/procedural check that requires human intervention.
 How to handle this for a specific OS's STIG is currently under investigation.
 </note>
 
+<note ref="22578,22579" auth="18octDCM">
+This was identified as no longer practical for most use cases.
+</note>
+
+<note ref="760,4398" auth="18octDCM">
+This was identified as impractical/costly.
+</note>
+
+<note ref="923" auth="18octDCM">
+This was identified as redundant to the integrity checking baseline requirements.
+</note>
+
+<note ref="925" auth="18octDCM">
+This was identified as not indicative of the underlying driver behavior.
+</note>
+
+<note ref="22310,22311" auth="18octDCM">
+This was identified as providing little confidence of proper system state, as
+it is extremely difficult to query the system with any confidence.
+</note>
+
 <note ref="22363,22354,22355,22359,22360,22364" auth="JB">
-This needs to be considered for a new group that involves ensuring LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
+This could be considered for a new group that involves ensuring LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
 LD_PRELOAD, LD_AUDIT, and relative paths do not occur in a particular set of initialization files.
 At the same time, this represents a level of misconfiguration-checking
 that may not be appropriate for a baseline.
diff --git a/RHEL6/input/system/network/kernel.xml b/RHEL6/input/system/network/kernel.xml
index 0c44281..379bd21 100644
--- a/RHEL6/input/system/network/kernel.xml
+++ b/RHEL6/input/system/network/kernel.xml
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ which affect networking and have security implications are described here.
 
 <Group id="network_host_parameters">
 <title>Network Parameters for Hosts Only</title>
-<description>If the system is not going to be used as a router, then certain
-kernel parameters should be set to ensure that the host will not perform routing
+<description>If the system is not going to be used as a router, then setting certain
+kernel parameters ensure that the host will not perform routing
 of network traffic.</description>
 
 <Rule id="disable_sysctl_ipv4_default_send_redirects">
-- 
1.7.1



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