BigFix Compliance: Updated CIS Checklist for RHEL 6, published 2020-06-23

Product:
BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Benchmark with bug fixes.

Security Benchmark:
CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Benchmark, v2.1.0

Published Sites:
CIS Checklist for RHEL 6, site version 32
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:
Fixed and improved implementation for the following checks:

• Ensure permissions on all logfiles are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/group are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/group- are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/gshadow are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/gshadow- are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/passwd are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/passwd- are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/shadow are configured
• Ensure permissions on /etc/shadow- are configured

Actions to take:
• To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigFix Compliance product and you must be using BigFix version 9.2 and later.

• If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to use the latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the Synchronize Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html.

More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resource:

BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!

– The BigFix Compliance team