The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215366r958478_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "aixmibd" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d aixmibd