The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) must be disabled unless required.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-22517	GEN007140	SV-38903r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) is a proposed 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 system to dynamically load a protocol handler by opening a socket using the protocol.

STIG	Date
Draft AIX Security Technical Implementation Guide	2011-08-17

Details

Check Text ( C-37896r1_chk )
If there is no UDP-Lite protocol handler available for the system, this is not applicable. Lightweight User Datagram Protocol is not currently available for AIX 5 and AIX6 therefore it is not applicable.

Fix Text (F-33156r1_fix)
No fix necessary.