The operating system must employ automated mechanisms to enforce strict adherence to protocol format.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000155-NA	SRG-OS-000155-NA	SRG-OS-000155-NA_rule		Medium

Description
Crafted packets not conforming to IEEE standards can be used by malicious people to exploit a host's protocol stack to create a Denial of Service or force a device reset.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000155-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-000155-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA. No fix is required.