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-50318r3_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	2016-06-05

Details

Check Text ( C-46074r3_chk )
If the system is configured to prevent the loading of the "tipc" 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 tipc /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-46074r3_chk )

If the system is configured to prevent the loading of the "tipc" 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 tipc /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d

If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43464r3_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/true