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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-50316r4_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 2017-04-28

Details

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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