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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-226578	GEN002360	SV-226578r603265_rule		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
Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-12-04

Details

Check Text ( C-28739r483143_chk )
Check the group-owner of audio devices. Procedure: # ls -lL /dev/audio If the group-owner of an audio device is not root, sys, or bin, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-28727r483144_fix)
Change the group owner of the audio device. Procedure: # chgrp system