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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-28860	SRG-OS-000138	SV-36850r1_rule		Medium

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

Description

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

STIG	Date
Operating System Security Requirements Guide	2011-12-28

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