The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol must be disabled unless required.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38517	RHEL-06-000127	SV-50318r2_rule		Medium

Description
Disabling TIPC protects the system against exploitation of any flaws in its implementation.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2014-06-10

Details

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Fix Text (F-43464r2_fix)
The Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is designed to provide communications between nodes in a cluster. To configure the system to prevent the "tipc" kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to a file in the directory "/etc/modprobe.d": install tipc /bin/false