STIGUI
V-271467CAT II — Medium severitySV-271467r1091113_rule

OL 9 must have policycoreutils package installed.

Rule version OL09-00-000200 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

Without verification of the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly and the failure may go unnoticed. Security function is defined as the hardware, software, and/or firmware of the information system responsible for enforcing the system security policy and supporting the isolation of code and data on which the protection is based. Security functionality includes, but is not limited to, establishing system accounts, configuring access authorizations (i.e., permissions, privileges), setting events to be audited, and setting intrusion detection parameters.

Policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of an SELinux-enabled system. These utilities include load_policy to load SELinux policies, setfile to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper context.

Check

Verify that OL 9 has the policycoreutils package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed policycoreutils Installed Packages policycoreutils.x86_64 3.6-2.1.el9 @anaconda

If the "policycoreutils" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Fix

Install the policycoreutils package with the following command:

$ sudo dnf install -y policycoreutils

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271467
Group title
SRG-OS-000134-GPOS-00068
Rule ID
SV-271467r1091113_rule
Check ID
C-75517r1091111_chk
Fix ID
F-75424r1091112_fix