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V-269253CAT II — Medium severitySV-269253r1101817_rule

AlmaLinux OS 9 must have the nss-tools package installed.

Rule version ALMA-09-019600 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Install the "nss-tools" package to install command-line tools to manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

Check

Verify that AlmaLinux OS 9 has the FIPS-validated nss-tools package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed nss-tools

Installed Packages nss-tools.x86_64 3.90.0-6.el9_2.tuxcare.1 @@commandline

If the TuxCare version of the "nss-tools" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix

The nss-tools package can be installed with the following command:

$ dnf install nss-tools

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269253
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-269253r1101817_rule
Check ID
C-73284r1101816_chk
Fix ID
F-73185r1048136_fix