OL 9 must enable the SELinux targeted policy.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-271453	SRG-OS-000445-GPOS-00199	OL09-00-000065	SV-271453r1091071_rule	2025-05-08	1

Description
Setting the SELinux policy to "targeted" or a more specialized policy ensures the system will confine processes that are likely to be targeted for exploitation, such as network or system services. Note: During the development or debugging of SELinux modules, it is common to temporarily place nonproduction systems in "permissive" mode. In such temporary cases, SELinux policies should be developed, and once work is completed, the system should be reconfigured to "targeted".

Description

Setting the SELinux policy to "targeted" or a more specialized policy ensures the system will confine processes that are likely to be targeted for exploitation, such as network or system services. Note: During the development or debugging of SELinux modules, it is common to temporarily place nonproduction systems in "permissive" mode. In such temporary cases, SELinux policies should be developed, and once work is completed, the system should be reconfigured to "targeted".

ℹ️ Check
Verify that OL 9 enables the SELinux targeted policy with the following command: $ sestatus \| grep policy Loaded policy name: targeted If the loaded policy name is not "targeted", this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure OL 9 to use the targetd SELINUX policy. Edit the file "/etc/selinux/config" and add or modify the following line: SELINUXTYPE=targeted A reboot is required for the changes to take effect.