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V-269356CAT II — Medium severitySV-269356r1050239_rule

AlmaLinux OS 9 must not have the avahi package installed.

Rule version ALMA-09-031260 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-25

Discussion

The avahi package provides the zeroconf capability to discover remote services such as printers and announce itself as a service for sharing files and devices.

Check

Verify that the avahi package is not installed with the following command:

$ dnf list –installed avahi

Error: No matching Packages to list

If the "avahi" package is installed, this is a finding.

Fix

Remove the avahi package with the following command:

$ dnf remove avahi

Identifiers

Group ID
V-269356
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-269356r1050239_rule
Check ID
C-73387r1048444_chk
Fix ID
F-73288r1048445_fix