openstack/ansible-hardening
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ansible-hardening/doc/metadata/rhel7/V-72287.rst
Major Hayden dccce1d5cc
Handle RHEL 7 STIG renumbering 
This patch gets the docs adjusted to work with the new RHEL 7 STIG
version 1 release. The new STIG release has changed all of the
numbering, but it maintains a link to (most) of the old STIG IDs in
the XML.

Closes-bug: 1676865
Change-Id: I65023fe63163c9804a3aec9dcdbf23c69bedb604
2017-04-04 07:22:12 -05:00

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---id: V-72287 status: implemented tag: kernel ---

The tasks in this role set net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts to 1 by default. This prevents the system from responding to IPv4 ICMP echoes sent to the broadcast address.

Deployers can opt out of this change by setting the following Ansible variable:

security_disallow_echoes_broadcast_address: no