The firewall implementation must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-NET-000190-FW-000116	SRG-NET-000190-FW-000116	SRG-NET-000190-FW-000116_rule		Medium

Description
The purpose of this control is to prevent information produced by the actions of a prior user, role, or the actions of a process acting on behalf of a prior user or role from being available to any current user, role, or process for obtaining access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, or secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the firewall. Control of information in shared resources is also referred to as object reuse.

Description

The purpose of this control is to prevent information produced by the actions of a prior user, role, or the actions of a process acting on behalf of a prior user or role from being available to any current user, role, or process for obtaining access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, or secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the firewall. Control of information in shared resources is also referred to as object reuse.

STIG	Date
Firewall Security Requirements Guide	2012-12-10

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-NET-000190-FW-000116_chk )
Verify the application is designed to prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer between user sessions. Settings needed to enable or optimize this security feature must be enabled and configured. If the system is not configured to prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-NET-000190-FW-000116_fix)
Enable settings that prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.