Details

The eXtended InterNET Daemon (xinetd) is an open source super daemon that replaced the original inetd daemon. The xinetd daemon listens for well known services and dispatches the appropriate daemon to properly respond to service requests. Note: Several other services recommended to be disabled in this benchmark have xinetd versions as well, if xinetd is required in your environment ensure they are disabled in xinetd configuration as well. If there are no xinetd services required, it is recommended that the daemon be disabled.

Solution

Disable xinetd- # update-rc.d xinetd disable

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/85

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7b.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits