The operating system, when transferring information between different security domains, must prohibit the transfer of unsanctioned information in accordance with the security policy.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000224-NA	SRG-OS-000224-NA	SRG-OS-000224-NA_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an operating 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. Actions to support this requirement include but are not limited to: checking all transferred information for malware; implementing dirty word list searches on transferred information; and applying the same protection measures to metadata (e.g., security attributes) that is applied to the information payload.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an operating 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. Actions to support this requirement include but are not limited to: checking all transferred information for malware; implementing dirty word list searches on transferred information; and applying the same protection measures to metadata (e.g., security attributes) that is applied to the information payload.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000224-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-000224-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA. No fix is required.