CCE-90910-1| Platform: rhel7,centos7 | Date: (C)2017-06-29 (M)2022-10-10 |
Disable IPv6 Networking Support Automatic Loading
To disable support for ('ipv6') add the following line to
'/etc/sysctl.d/ipv6.conf' (or another file in
'/etc/sysctl.d'):
'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1'
This disables IPv6 on all network interfaces as other services and system
functionality require the IPv6 stack loaded to work.
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Any unnecessary network stacks - including IPv6 - should be disabled, to reduce
the vulnerability to exploitation.
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| SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:31289 |
| SCAP Repo OVAL Definition | oval:org.secpod.oval:def:30566 |
