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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • If AIX system does not support either local or remote printing, the piobe service must be disabled.

    The piobe daemon is the I/O back end for the printing process, handling the job scheduling and spooling. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • If there are no X11 clients that require CDE on AIX, the dt service must be disabled.

    This entry executes the CDE startup script which starts the AIX Common Desktop Environment. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • If NFS is not required on AIX, the NFS daemon must be disabled.

    The rcnfs entry starts the NFS daemons during system boot. NFS is a service with numerous historical vulnerabilities and should not be enabled unless there is no alternative. If NFS serving is req...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • If sendmail is not required on AIX, the sendmail service must be disabled.

    The sendmail service has many historical vulnerabilities and, where possible, should be disabled. If the system is not required to operate as a mail server i.e. sending, receiving or processing e-m...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

    Group
  • If SNMP is not required on AIX, the snmpd service must be disabled.

    The snmpd daemon is used by many 3rd party applications to monitor the health of the system. This allows remote monitoring of network and server configuration. To prevent remote attacks this daemo...
    Rule Medium Severity

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