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The operating system must display security attributes in human-readable form on each object output from the system to system output devices to identify an organization-identified set of special dissemination, handling, or distribution instructions using organization-identified human readable, standard naming conventions.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
SRG-OS-000247-ESXI5-PNF SRG-OS-000247-ESXI5-PNF SRG-OS-000247-ESXI5-PNF_rule Medium
Description
Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects, objects) with respect to safeguarding information. These attributes are typically associated with internal data structures (e.g., records, buffers, files, registry keys) within the information system and are used to enable the implementation of access control and flow control policies, reflect special dissemination, handling or distribution instructions, or support other aspects of the information security policy. The term security label is often used to associate a set of security attributes with a specific information object as part of the data structure for that object (e.g., user access privileges, nationality, affiliation as contractor). A security label is defined as the means used to associate a set of security attributes with a specific information object as part of the data structure for the object. Security attributes need to be displayed in human readable form in order to determine how the data should be disseminated, handled, and what distribution instructions apply to the data. When applications generate or output data, the associated security attributes need to be displayed. Permanent not a finding - VMware's ESXi-v5 is a multi-user kernel where all users are "administrator" with either: Administrator with Full and partial (configurable) privileges, Read-only, or No Access. In this case, the file owner, group-owner and mode(s) have no meaning.
STIG Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000247-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-SRG-OS-000247-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.