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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN007020-ESXI5-PNF	GEN007020-ESXI5-PNF	GEN007020-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an IETF-standardized transport layer protocol. This protocol is not yet widely used. Binding this protocol to the network stack increases the attack surface of the host. Unprivileged local processes may be able to cause the system to dynamically load a protocol handler by opening a socket using the protocol. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.

Description

The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an IETF-standardized transport layer protocol. This protocol is not yet widely used. Binding this protocol to the network stack increases the attack surface of the host. Unprivileged local processes may be able to cause the system to dynamically load a protocol handler by opening a socket using the protocol. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN007020-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN007020-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.