The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
The aixmibd daemon is a dpi2 sub-agent which manages a number of MIB variables. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.
- ID
- SV-215366r958478_rule
- Version
- AIX7-00-003061
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "aixmibd" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d aixmibd