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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-34705	SRG-NET-000190-IDPS-00138	SV-45591r1_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 from obtaining access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, or secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the IDPS. 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 from obtaining access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, or secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the IDPS. Control of information in shared resources is also referred to as object reuse.

STIG	Date
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) Security Requirements Guide	2012-11-19

Details

Check Text ( C-42946r1_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-38988r1_fix)
Enable settings that prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.