{"description": "The <code>policycoreutils</code> package can be installed with the following command:\n<pre>\n$ apt-get install policycoreutils</pre>", "rationale": "Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux kernel and a number of utilities\nwith enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux.\nThe Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally\ndeveloped to improve security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components\nprovide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control\npolicies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement, Role-based Access\nControl, and Multi-level Security.\n\n<tt>policycoreutils</tt> contains the policy core utilities that are required for\nbasic operation of an SELinux-enabled system. These utilities include <tt>load_policy</tt>\nto load SELinux policies, <tt>setfiles</tt> to label filesystems, <tt>newrole</tt> to\nswitch roles, and so on.", "severity": "low", "references": {"srg": ["SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227", "SRG-OS-000134-GPOS-00068"]}, "control_references": {}, "components": [], "identifiers": {}, "ocil_clause": "the policycoreutils package is not installed", "ocil": " Run the following command to determine if the <code>policycoreutils</code> package is installed: <pre>$ dpkg -l  policycoreutils</pre>", "oval_external_content": null, "fixtext": " To install the Ubuntu 22.04 package policycoreutils run the following command:\n\n$ apt-get install policycoreutils", "checktext": "", "vuldiscussion": "", "srg_requirement": "Ubuntu 22.04 must have policycoreutils package installed.", "warnings": [], "conflicts": [], "requires": [], "policy_specific_content": {"stig": {"srg_requirement": "Ubuntu 22.04 must have policycoreutils package installed.", "vuldiscussion": "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.\n\nPolicycoreutils 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.", "checktext": "Verify Ubuntu 22.04 has the policycoreutils package installed with the following command:\n\n$ dnf list --installed policycoreutils\n\nExample output:\n\npolicycoreutils.x86_64          3.3-6.el9_0\n\nIf the \"policycoreutils\" package is not installed, this is a finding.", "fixtext": "The policycoreutils package can be installed with the following command:\n\n$ sudo dnf install policycoreutils"}}, "platform": null, "platforms": [], "sce_metadata": {}, "inherited_platforms": ["system_with_kernel"], "cpe_platform_names": [], "inherited_cpe_platform_names": ["system_with_kernel"], "bash_conditional": null, "fixes": {}, "title": "Install policycoreutils Package", "definition_location": "/aptdata/openscap/scap-security-guide/linux_os/guide/system/selinux/package_policycoreutils_installed/rule.yml", "template": {"name": "package_installed", "vars": {"pkgname": "policycoreutils"}, "backends": {}}}