The operating system, when transferring information between different security domains, must prohibit the transfer of unsanctioned information in accordance with the security policy.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000224-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000224-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000224-ESXI5-PF_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an operating 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. Actions to support this requirement include but are not limited to: checking all transferred information for malware; implementing dirty word list searches on transferred information; and applying the same protection measures to metadata (e.g., security attributes) that is applied to the information payload. Permanent finding - ESXi v5 does not support this requirement.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an operating 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. Actions to support this requirement include but are not limited to: checking all transferred information for malware; implementing dirty word list searches on transferred information; and applying the same protection measures to metadata (e.g., security attributes) that is applied to the information payload. 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-000224-ESXI5-PF_chk )
ESXi does not support this requirement. This is a permanent finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000224-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.