The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol must be disabled or uninstalled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-22533	GEN007540	SV-38914r1_rule	ECSC-1	Medium

Description
The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is a relatively new cluster communications protocol developed by Ericsson. 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-37905r1_chk )
If there is no TIPC protocol handler for the system, this is not applicable. Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is not currently available for the AIX 5 and AIX6 and is therefore not applicable.

Fix Text (F-33163r1_fix)
No fix necessary.