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

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-000225

SV-37577r1_rule Audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system.

Vulnerability discussion

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.

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Change the group-owner of the audio device. Procedure: # chgrp root

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