Title

The portmap or rpcbind service must not be running unless needed. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The portmap and rpcbind services increase the attack surface of the system and should only be used when needed. The portmap or rpcbind services are used by a variety of services using Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs).

Check Content

If the portmap service is required for system operations, this is not a finding. Determine if the portmap service is running. #ps -ef|grep portmap If portmap is running, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Disable the portmap service from auto starting by commenting out portmap from /etc/rc.tcpip. # vi /etc/rc.tcpip Shutdown the portmap service. # ps -ef | grep portmap # kill <pid of portmap>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-38874r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-22429

Group Title: GEN003810

Expert Comments

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