Why SCTP support not disable by default in RHEL Server ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL-9)
  • Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
  • apr-1.7.0-10.5.el9

Issue

  • Disable SCTP protocol support by default on RHEL 9

Resolution

  • This was a bug and the issue got resolved after updating to the rpm packageapr-1.7.0-11.el9 or a higher version.

  • The issue has been Fixed in ERRATA (apr-1.7.0-11.el9.x86_64.rpm)

How to update the package using yum update command

Diagnostic Steps

  • RHEL Version on the system
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 (Plow)
  • apr version installed on the system
# rpm -qa | grep apr
apr-1.7.0-10.5.el9.x86_64
  • the sctp is enabled by default.
# lsmod | grep sctp
sctp                  450560  2
ip6_udp_tunnel         16384  1 sctp
udp_tunnel             24576  1 sctp
libcrc32c              16384  5 nf_conntrack,nf_nat,nf_tables,xfs,sctp

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