The operating system must enforce information flow control on metadata.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000014-NA	SRG-OS-000014-NA	SRG-OS-000014-NA_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. Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data, such as, purpose of the data, author/creator of the data, network location of where data was created, and application specific data information.

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. Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data, such as, purpose of the data, author/creator of the data, network location of where data was created, and application specific data information.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000014-NA_chk )
RHEL6 cannot support this requirement without assistance from an external application, policy, or service. This requirement is NA.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000014-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA. No fix is required.