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V-215356

CAT II (Medium)

If DHCP is not enabled in the network on AIX, the dhcprd daemon must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-215356r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The dhcprd daemon listens for broadcast packets, receives them, and forwards them to the appropriate server. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 
# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/dhcprd" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "dhcprd" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d dhcprd