The operating system must provide the capability for a privileged administrator to enable/disable organization-defined security policy filters.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
RHEL-06-000368-PNF	RHEL-06-000368-PNF	RHEL-06-000368-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Organization-defined security policy filters may include, dirty word filters, file type checking filters, metadata content filters, and hidden content filters. In order to effectively manage these filters, the operating system must provide the mechanism to enable/disable these filters.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Organization-defined security policy filters may include, dirty word filters, file type checking filters, metadata content filters, and hidden content filters. In order to effectively manage these filters, the operating system must provide the mechanism to enable/disable these filters.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-RHEL-06-000368-PNF_chk )
RHEL6 supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-RHEL-06-000368-PNF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent not a finding. No fix is required.