The operating system, when transferring information between different security domains, must implement policy filters constraining data structure and content to organization-defined information security policy requirements.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000222-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000222-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000222-ESXI5-PF_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Examples of constraints include ensuring: (i) character data fields only contain printable ASCII; (ii) character data fields only contain alpha-numeric characters; (iii) character data fields do not contain special characters; and (iv) maximum field sizes and file lengths are enforced based upon organization-defined security policy. Permanent finding - ESXi v5 does not support this requirement.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Examples of constraints include ensuring: (i) character data fields only contain printable ASCII; (ii) character data fields only contain alpha-numeric characters; (iii) character data fields do not contain special characters; and (iv) maximum field sizes and file lengths are enforced based upon organization-defined security policy. Permanent finding - ESXi v5 does not support this requirement.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000222-ESXI5-PF_chk )
ESXi does not support this requirement. This is a permanent finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000222-ESXI5-PF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent finding and cannot be fixed. An appropriate mitigation for the system must be implemented but this finding cannot be considered fixed.