GEN000000-AIX0230 - The system must provide protection against IP fragmentation attacks.

Information

The parameter ip_nfrag provides an additional layer of protection against IP fragmentation attacks. The value the ip_nfrag specifies is the maximum number of fragments of an IP packet that can be kept in the IP reassembly queue at any time. The default value of this network option is 200. This is a reasonable value for most environments and offers protection from IP fragmentation attacks.

Solution

Set the ip_nfrag parameter to 200.

# /usr/sbin/no -p -o ip_nfrag=200

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_AIX_6-1_V1R14_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-4(8), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000032, Group-ID|V-29498, Rule-ID|SV-38702r1_rule, STIG-ID|GEN000000-AIX0230, Vuln-ID|V-29498

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 6a4581a694e36962773bb1063c922dac1ec94bf2cd7dc438cb26903265c7a22e