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The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-215366 AIX7-00-003061 SV-215366r508663_rule Medium
Description
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.
STIG Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide 2022-06-06

Details

Check Text ( C-16564r294549_chk )
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 (F-16562r294550_fix)
In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "aixmibd" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d aixmibd