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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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  • The time daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The chargen daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The discard daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The rstatd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The rusersd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The sprayd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The klogin daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The kshell daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The tftp daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The imap2 service must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The pop3 daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The finger daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The instsrv daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The echo daemon must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The Internet Network News (INN) server must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol must be disabled on AIX.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • If automated file system mounting tool is not required on AIX, it must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • AIX process core dumps must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

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  • AIX kernel core dumps must be disabled unless needed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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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