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V-215366

CAT II (Medium)

The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215366r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The aixmibd daemon is a dpi2 sub-agent which manages a number of MIB variables. 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/aixmibd" /etc/rc.tcpip

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

Fix Text

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