RHEL-06-000125 - The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled unless required.

Information

Disabling SCTP protects the system against exploitation of any flaws in its implementation.

Solution

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport layer protocol, designed to support the idea of message-oriented communication, with several streams of messages within one connection. To configure the system to prevent the 'sctp' kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to a file in the directory '/etc/modprobe.d':

install sctp /bin/true

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_6_V2R2_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000382, Rule-ID|SV-217935r603264_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-06-000125, STIG-Legacy|SV-50316, STIG-Legacy|V-38515, Vuln-ID|V-217935

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 89f1173171261c49d647dbbc108268a5f18702c43086bf103c74b3c70709f479