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The Bluetooth protocol handler must be disabled or not installed.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
GEN007660-ESXI5-PNF GEN007660-ESXI5-PNF GEN007660-ESXI5-PNF_rule Medium
Description
Bluetooth is a Personal Area Network (PAN) technology. Binding this protocol to the network stack increases the attack surface of the host. Unprivileged local processes may be able to cause the kernel 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-GEN007660-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-GEN007660-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.