Inetd and xinetd must be disabled or removed if no network services utilizing them are enabled.

From Oracle Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000305

SV-64231r1_rule Inetd and xinetd must be disabled or removed if no network services utilizing them are enabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Unnecessary services should be disabled to decrease the attack surface of the system.

Check content

# ps -ef |grep xinetd If xinetd is not running, this check is not a finding. # grep -v "^#" /etc/xinetd.conf # grep disable /etc/xinetd.d/* |grep no If no active services are found, and the inetd daemon is running, this is a finding.

Fix text

# service xinetd stop ; chkconfig xinetd off

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