Audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-1061	GEN002360	SV-27253r1_rule	ECLP-1	Medium

Description
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.

STIG	Date
Draft AIX Security Technical Implementation Guide	2011-08-17

Details

Check Text ( C-28285r1_chk )
Check the group owner of audio devices. Procedure: # /usr/sbin/lsdev -C | grep -i audio # ls -lL /dev/*aud0 If the group owner of an audio device is not root, sys, bin, or system, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-1215r3_fix)
Change the group owner of the audio device. Procedure: # chgrp system