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V-215364

CAT II (Medium)

If AIX server does not host an SNMP agent, the dpid2 daemon must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-215364r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The dpid2 daemon acts as a protocol converter, which enables DPI (SNMP v2) sub-agents, such as hostmibd, to talk to a SNMP v1 agent that follows SNMP MUX protocol. To prevent 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/dpid2" /etc/rc.tcpip

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

Fix Text

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "dpid2" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d dpid2