The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled unless required.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38515	RHEL-06-000125	SV-50316r3_rule		Medium

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

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-12-03

Details

Check Text ( C-46072r3_chk )
If the system is configured to prevent the loading of the "sctp" kernel module, it will contain lines inside any file in "/etc/modprobe.d" or the deprecated"/etc/modprobe.conf". These lines instruct the module loading system to run another program (such as "/bin/true") upon a module "install" event. Run the following command to search for such lines in all files in "/etc/modprobe.d" and the deprecated "/etc/modprobe.conf": $ grep -r sctp /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-46072r3_chk )

If the system is configured to prevent the loading of the "sctp" kernel module, it will contain lines inside any file in "/etc/modprobe.d" or the deprecated"/etc/modprobe.conf". These lines instruct the module loading system to run another program (such as "/bin/true") upon a module "install" event. Run the following command to search for such lines in all files in "/etc/modprobe.d" and the deprecated "/etc/modprobe.conf":

$ grep -r sctp /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d

If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43462r3_fix)
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport layer protocol, designed to support the idea of message-oriented communication, with several streams of messages within one connection. To configure the system to prevent the "sctp" kernel module from being loaded, add the following line to a file in the directory "/etc/modprobe.d": install sctp /bin/true