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RHEL-10-800180 RHEL 10 must limit the number of bogus Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) response errors logs.

DISA STIG library V1R3
All changes in this version
first version loaded CAT II

Maps to SC-5, SC-7(4) via CCI-002385, CCI-001105

Title

RHEL 10 must limit the number of bogus Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) response errors logs.

Control

Verify RHEL 10 limits the number of bogus ICMP response errors logs. Check the value of the "net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_response" variables with the following command: $ sudo sysctl net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1 If "net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_response" is not set to "1" or is missing, this is a finding.

Discussion

Some routers will send responses to broadcast frames that violate RFC-1122, which fills up a log file system with many useless error messages. An attacker may take advantage of this and attempt to flood the logs with bogus error logs. Ignoring bogus ICMP error responses reduces log size, although some activity would not be logged. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000420-GPOS-00186, SRG-OS-000142-GPOS-00081

Related controls

CCI-001105, CCI-002385

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to not log bogus ICMP errors. Create a configuration file if it does not already exist: $ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.d/ipv4_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses.conf Add the following line to the file: net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1 Reload settings from all system configuration files with the following command: $ sudo sysctl --system