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The root account's list of preloaded libraries must be empty.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-22311 GEN000950 SV-38772r1_rule ECSC-1 Medium
Description
The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the libraries required by the binary. If this list contains paths to libraries relative to the current working directory, unintended libraries may be preloaded. This variable is formatted as a space-separated list of libraries. Paths starting with (/) are absolute paths.
STIG Date
AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 2018-09-18

Details

Check Text ( C-36917r1_chk )
Verify the LDR_PRELOAD environment variable is empty or not defined for the root user.

# env | grep LDR_PRELOAD

If a path is returned, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-33095r1_fix)
Edit the root user's initialization files and remove any definition of LDR_PRELOAD.