I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The time daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>This service can be used to synchronize system clocks. The time service is an obsolete process used to synchronize system cl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
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The talk daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>This talk service is used to establish an interactive two-way communication link between two UNIX users. Unless required the ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
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The ntalk daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>This service establishes a two-way communication link between two users, either locally or remotely. Unless required the ntal...Rule High Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The chargen daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>This service is used to test the integrity of TCP/IP packets arriving at the destination. This chargen service is a characte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The discard daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The discard service is used as a debugging and measurement tool. It sets up a listening socket and ignores data that it recei...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
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The dtspc daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The dtspc service deals with the CDE interface of the X11 daemon. It is started automatically by the inetd daemon in response...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
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The pcnfsd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The pcnfsd service is an authentication and printing program, which uses NFS to provide file transfer services. This service ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The rstatd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The rstatd service is used to provide kernel statistics and other monitorable parameters pertinent to the system such as: CPU...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The rusersd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The rusersd service runs as root and provides a list of current users active on a system. An attacker may use this service to...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The sprayd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The sprayd service is used as a tool to generate UDP packets for testing and diagnosing network problems. The service must be...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The klogin daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The klogin service offers a higher degree of security than traditional rlogin or telnet by eliminating most clear-text passwo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The kshell daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The kshell service offers a higher degree of security than traditional rsh services. However, it still does not use encrypted...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This serv...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The tftp daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The tftp service allows remote systems to download or upload files to the tftp server without any authentication. It is there...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The imap2 service must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The imap2 service or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) supports the IMAP4 remote mail access protocol. It works with se...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The pop3 daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The pop3 service provides a pop3 server. It supports the pop3 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmai...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The finger daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The fingerd daemon provides the server function for the finger command. This allows users to view real-time pertinent user lo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The instsrv daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The instsrv service is part of the Network Installation Tools, used for servicing servers running AIX 3.2. This service shoul...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The echo daemon must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The echo service can be used in Denial of Service or SMURF attacks. It can also be used by someone else to get through a fire...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Internet Network News (INN) server must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>Internet Network News (INN) servers access Usenet newsfeeds and store newsgroup articles. INN servers use the Network News Tr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is an IETF-standardized transport layer protocol. This protocol is not yet wi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000096-GPOS-00050
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol must be disabled on AIX.
<VulnDiscussion>The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol is a relatively new protocol developed by Oracle for communication between the n...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000378-GPOS-00163
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If automated file system mounting tool is not required on AIX, it must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Automated file system mounting tools may provide unprivileged users with the ability to access local media and network shares...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AIX process core dumps must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>A core dump includes a memory image taken at the time the operating system terminates an application. The memory image could ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
AIX kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.
<VulnDiscussion>Kernel core dumps may contain the full contents of system memory at the time of the crash. Kernel core dumps may consume a co...Rule Medium Severity
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