V-215271

Discussion

Without privileged group owners, audio devices will be vulnerable to being used as eaves-dropping devices by malicious users or intruders to possibly listen to conversations containing sensitive information.

Check Content

Check the group owner of audio devices using commands:

# /usr/sbin/lsdev -C | grep -i audio 
aud0   Available             USB Audio Device

# ls -lL /dev/*aud0
cr--r--r--    1 root     system       16,  0 Jan 24 07:25 aud0 

If the group owner of an audio device is not "root", "sys", "bin", or "system", this is a finding.