AIX audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
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.
- ID
- SV-215271r991589_rule
- Version
- AIX7-00-002079
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Change the group owner of the audio device using command:
# chgrp system <audio device>