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IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041

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  • In the event of a system failure, AIX must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Fa...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • The /etc/shells file must exist on AIX systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shells file (or equivalent) lists approved default shells. It helps provide layered defense to the security approach by e...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • AIX public directories must be the only world-writable directories and world-writable files must be located only in public directories.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;World-writable files and directories make it easy for a malicious user to place potentially compromising files on the system....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • AIX must be configured to only boot from the system boot device.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to boot from removable media is the same as being able to boot into single user or maintenance mode without a pas...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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    Group
  • AIX must not use removable media as the boot loader.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Malicious users with removable boot media can gain access to a system configured to use removable media as the boot loader.&l...
    Rule Medium Severity

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