The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrtd) service must not be running.

From Oracle Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-OS-000096

Associated with: CCI-000382

SV-65037r1_rule The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (abrtd) service must not be running.

Vulnerability discussion

Mishandling crash data could expose sensitive information about vulnerabilities in software executing on the local machine, as well as sensitive information from within a process's address space or registers.

Check content

To check that the "abrtd" service is disabled in system boot configuration, run the following command: # chkconfig "abrtd" --list Output should indicate the "abrtd" service has either not been installed, or has been disabled at all runlevels, as shown in the example below: # chkconfig "abrtd" --list "abrtd" 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off Run the following command to verify "abrtd" is disabled through current runtime configuration: # service abrtd status If the service is disabled the command will return the following output: abrtd is stopped If the service is running, this is a finding.

Fix text

The Automatic Bug Reporting Tool ("abrtd") daemon collects and reports crash data when an application crash is detected. Using a variety of plugins, abrtd can email crash reports to system administrators, log crash reports to files, or forward crash reports to a centralized issue-tracking system such as the operating system vendor's centralized issue-tracking system. The "abrtd" service can be disabled with the following commands: # chkconfig abrtd off # service abrtd stop

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