The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) must be disabled unless required.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239542	VROM-SL-000615	SV-239542r662077_rule		Medium

Description
The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) is a proposed 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 SLES for vRealize to dynamically load a protocol handler by opening a socket using the protocol.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x SLES Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-07-01

Details

Check Text ( C-42775r662075_chk )
Run the following command: iptables --list | grep "udplite" If no result is displayed, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42734r662076_fix)
Configure SLES for vRealize to prevent the dynamic loading of the "UDP-Lite" protocol handler: Add the following rule to the iptables firewall ruleset: # iptables -A INPUT -p udplite -j DROP