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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • The AIX qdaemon must be disabled if local or remote printing is not required.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The qdaemon program is the printing scheduling daemon that manages the submission of print jobs to the piobe service. To pre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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    Group
  • If AIX system does not act as a remote print server for other servers, the lpd daemon must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The lpd daemon accepts remote print jobs from other systems. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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    Group
  • If AIX system does not support either local or remote printing, the piobe service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The piobe daemon is the I/O back end for the printing process, handling the job scheduling and spooling. To prevent remote a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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    Group
  • If there are no X11 clients that require CDE on AIX, the dt service must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This entry executes the CDE startup script which starts the AIX Common Desktop Environment. To prevent attacks this daemon s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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    Group
  • If NFS is not required on AIX, the NFS daemon must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The rcnfs entry starts the NFS daemons during system boot. NFS is a service with numerous historical vulnerabilities and sho...
    Rule Medium Severity

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