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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 pop3 daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The pop3 service provides a pop3 server. It supports the pop3 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmai...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • SRG-OS-000080-GPOS-00048

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  • AIX must turn on enhanced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions, to grant system privileges to other operating system admins, and prohibit user installation of system software without explicit privileged status.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities that have been issued certificates by DoD-ap...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • If DHCP server is not required on AIX, the DHCP server must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The dhcpsd daemon is the DHCP server that serves addresses and configuration information to DHCP clients in the network. To ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Internet Network News (INN) server must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Internet Network News (INN) servers access Usenet newsfeeds and store newsgroup articles. INN servers use the Network News Tr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050

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  • If Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an IETF-standardized transport layer protocol. This protocol is not yet wi...
    Rule Medium Severity

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