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Solaris Benchmark Version 2.1.1 (Solaris 10)

Name Solaris Benchmark v 2.1.1 (Solaris 10)
Version Version 2.1.1
Status Final
Creation Date 2005
Revision Date 2006-03-07
Product Category Operating System
Vendor Sun Microsystems
Product Solaris 10
Product Version Solaris 10
Product Role Server Operating System, Desktop Operating Sytem
Checklist Summary This document provides recommendations for securing Solaris operating systems. This benchmark document covers Solaris version 10 for both servers and desktops. Desktop systems typically have different security expectations than server-class systems. In an effort to facilitate use of this benchmark on these different classes of machines, shaded text has been used to indicate questions and/or actions that are typically not applicable to desktop systems in a large enterprise environment. These shaded items may be skipped on these desktop platforms.
Known Issues Not Available.
Target Audience This checklist has been created for IT professionals, particularly system administrators and information security personnel.
Target Operational Environment Enterprise.
Checklist Installation Tools Not Available.
Rollback Capability Not Available.
Testing Information Not Available.
NIAP/CMVP Status Not Available.
Regulatory Compliance Not Available.
Comments, Warnings, Disclaimer, Miscellaneous
Refer to Known Issues.
Disclaimer Differs for Public and Private consumers, please read disclaimer information from the CIS web site located at: http://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html
Product Support Not Available.
Submitting Organization/Authors The Center for Internet Security (CIS)
Point of Contact sol-bench@cisecurity.org
Sponsor Not Available
Licensing

Differs for Public and Private consumers, please read licensing information from the CIS web site located athttp://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html

Checklist Homepage http://www.cisecurity.org/
Download Package http://www.cisecurity.org/sub_form.html
Integrity

sha1 (CIS_Solaris10_Benchmark_v2.1.1.tar.tar) =
2bb272d013bb443fc585fb8fa316dad579c0bf8f


sha256 (CIS_Solaris10_Benchmark_v2.1.1.tar.tar) =
9d54d78055f0ba16b33a266a54b96e5e165d2f0
342f692486f83e18373e8b988

Change History

Version 2.1: August 18, 2005. Version 2.1.1: February 21, 2006.
Version 1.0: 2004-09-18

Dependency/Requirement Not Available.
References Free benchmark documents and security tools for various OS platforms and applications: http://www.cisecurity.org/

Pre-compiled software packages for various OS platforms: ftp://ftp.cisecurity.org/

Patch clusters and related documentation: ftp://patches.sun.com/patchroot/clusters/

Patch management recommendations: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/
browsesubject.html#dcp

Solaris Security Toolkit:
http://www.sun.com/security/jass/

Solaris Fingerprint Database: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/fileFingerprints.pl

Sun’s Kerberos Information: http://www.sun.com/software/security/kerberos/

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) white paper: http://wwws.sun.com/software/
whitepapers/wp-rbac/

OpenSSH white paper, NTP white paper, information on kernel (ndd) settings, et al:
http://www.sun.com/security/blueprints/

Various documentation on Solaris security issues: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/

On BSM Audit flags:
http://www.samag.com/documents/
s=9427/sam0414c/0414c.htm

On hiding information in Solaris extended attributes: http://www.usenix.org/publications/
login/2004-02/pdfs/brunette.pdf .
NIST Identifier 1092



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