Title

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be a vendor supported release. (Cat I impact)

Discussion

An operating system release is considered "supported" if the vendor continues to provide security patches for the product. With an unsupported release, it will not be possible to resolve security issues discovered in the system software.

Check Content

Verify the version of the operating system is vendor supported. Check the version of the operating system with the following command: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo) Current End of Maintenance Support for RHEL 7.9 is 30 June 2024. If the release is not supported by the vendor, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Upgrade to a supported version of the operating system.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-204458r991589_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-204458

Group Title: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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