The operating system must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial of service attacks.

From Solaris 11 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-001095

SV-60771r1_rule The operating system must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of denial of service attacks.

Vulnerability discussion

In the case of denial of service attacks, care must be taken when designing the operating system so as to ensure that the operating system makes the best use of system resources.

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Ask the operator if Solaris 11 resource controls are configured limiting user memory, process table slots, network bandwidth, and threads utilization If resource controls are not implemented to limit user memory usage, process table slots, network bandwidth, and/or threads utilization, this is a finding.

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Use Solaris 11 projects and resource controls to limit the amount of memory and CPU resources available to users and applications.

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