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V-256574

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system must not perform multicast packet forwarding.

Rule ID

SV-256574r991589_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this software is used when not required, system network information may be unnecessarily transmitted across the network.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# /sbin/sysctl -a --pattern "net.ipv[4|6].conf.(all|default|eth.*).mc_forwarding"

Expected result:

net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.mc_forwarding = 0
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding = 0
net.ipv6.conf.all.mc_forwarding = 0
net.ipv6.conf.default.mc_forwarding = 0
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.mc_forwarding = 0

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Note: The number of "ethx" lines returned is dependent on the number of interfaces. Every "ethx" entry must be set to "0".

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following command:

# for SETTING in $(/sbin/sysctl -aN --pattern "net.ipv[4|6].conf.(all|default|eth.*).mc_forwarding"); do sed -i -e "/^${SETTING}/d" /etc/sysctl.conf;echo $SETTING=0>>/etc/sysctl.conf; done
# /sbin/sysctl --load