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V-269253

CAT II (Medium)

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

Rule ID

SV-269253r1101817_rule

STIG

Cloud Linux AlmaLinux OS 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R6

CCIs

CCI-000366

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 Content

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 Text

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