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RHEL 10 must disable the kdump service.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-281322RHEL-10-701200SV-281322r1167116_ruleCCI-001665medium
Description
Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps consume a considerable amount of disk space and may result in denial of service by exhausting the available space on the target file system partition. Unless the system is used for kernel development or testing, there is little need to run the kdump service.
STIGDate
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-03-11

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (9) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

BCD-01Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
1.00
CFG-02Secure Baseline Configurations
1.00
CRY-01Use of Cryptographic Controls
1.00
DCH-01Data Protection
1.00
IAC-21Least Privilege
1.00
SEA-01Secure Engineering Principles
1.00
SEA-01.2Achieving Resilience Requirements
1.00
SEA-02Alignment With Enterprise Architecture
1.00
SEA-07.2Fail Secure
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (11) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-6(4)Central Review and Analysis
1.00
CM-7(2)Prevent Program Execution
1.00
SC-24Fail in Known State
1.00
SC-7Boundary Protection
1.00
SC-7(5)Deny by Default — Allow by Exception
1.00

+1 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001665
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

PR.DS-10
1.00
PR.IR-03
1.00

Who does this work

13 NICE work roles and 8 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-281322r1167116_chk)

Verify RHEL 10 disables the kdump service in system boot configuration with the following command: $ sudo systemctl is-enabled kdump masked Verify the kdump service is not active (i.e., not running) through current runtime configuration with the following command: $ sudo systemctl is-active kdump failed Verify the kdump service is masked with the following command: $ sudo systemctl show kdump | grep "LoadState\|UnitFileState" LoadState=masked UnitFileState=masked If the "kdump" service is loaded or active and is not masked, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-85788r1167115_fix)

Configure RHEL 10 to disable and mask the kdump service. To disable the kdump service, run the following command: $ sudo systemctl disable --now kdump Removed '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/kdump.service'. To mask the kdump service, run the following command: $ sudo systemctl mask --now kdump Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/kdump.service' ? '/dev/null'.