The dtspc daemon must be disabled on AIX.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>The dtspc service deals with the CDE interface of the X11 daemon. It is started automatically by the inetd daemon in response to a CDE client requesting a process to be started on the daemon's host. This makes it vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, which may allow an attacker to gain root privileges on a host. This service must be disabled unless it is absolutely required.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215378r508663_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "dtspc" entry by running command:
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'dtspc' -p 'tcp'
Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd