AIX audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Without privileged group owners, audio devices will be vulnerable to being used as eaves-dropping devices by malicious users or intruders to possibly listen to conversations containing sensitive information.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215271r991589_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Change the group owner of the audio device using command:
# chgrp system <audio device>