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V-239517

CAT II (Medium)

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled unless required.

Rule ID

SV-239517r662002_rule

STIG

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000382

Discussion

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an IETF-standardized transport layer protocol. This protocol is not yet widely used. Binding this protocol to the network stack increases the attack surface of the host. Unprivileged local processes may be able to cause the kernel to dynamically load a protocol handler by opening a socket using the protocol.

Check Content

Verify the SCTP protocol handler is prevented from dynamic loading:

# grep "install sctp /bin/true" /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.local /etc/modprobe.d/*

If no result is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Prevent the SCTP protocol handler from dynamic loading:

# echo "install sctp /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.conf.local