TMA-BIND-2.4
Set root Ownership of BIND Directories
Description
All of the directories under which ISC BIND runs should be owned by root. Of course, any files created at run time by BIND will still be owned by named, and the run time files will need to be in a directory writable by the named group. The audit lists directories under $BIND_HOME and $RUNDIR not owned by root and requires none. $BIND_HOME is taken as the existing ones of /var/named (RHEL, including a chroot), /etc/bind and /var/cache/bind (Debian/Ubuntu) and $RUNDIR as /run/named; the runtime directories (dynamic, slaves, data, run, log, tmp, /var/cache/bind) are excluded where the benchmark excludes them.
How it is checked
Audit method: Shell command
BH=''; for d in /var/named /etc/bind /var/cache/bind; do [ -d "$d" ] && BH="$BH $d"; done
[ -n "$BH" ] || { echo 'no BIND directory found'; exit 1; }
RUN=''; for d in /run/named /var/run/named; do [ -d "$d" ] && { RUN=$d; break; }; done
G='-group root'; U='-user root'; for a in named bind; do grep -q "^$a:" /etc/group 2>/dev/null && G="$G -o -group $a"; grep -q "^$a:" /etc/passwd 2>/dev/null && U="$U -o -user $a"; done
RT='^(/var/named(/chroot/var/named)?/(dynamic|slaves|data)|/var/named/chroot/(var/)?run/named|/var/named/chroot/var/log|/var/named/chroot/(var/)?tmp|/var/cache/bind|/run/named|/var/run/named)(/|$)'
out=$(find $BH $RUN -type d \! -user root -print 2>/dev/null) || exit 1
[ -z "$out" ] && echo compliant || { printf '%s\n' "$out" | head -n 20; echo 'directories not owned by root'; }- Expected output
compliant
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
To correct the directory ownership, perform the following: find $BIND_HOME $RUNDIR -type d \! -user root | xargs chown root Note: it is important to remember that the run time files will need to be in a directory writable by the named group. Changing the directory ownership to root might cause permissions issues, if the group permissions are not writable.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- binddnspermissions
- Reference
- CIS ISC BIND DNS Server 9.11 Benchmark v1.0.0 - 2.4 Set root Ownership of BIND Directories
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target bind