Inetd and xinetd must be disabled or removed if no network services utilizing them are enabled.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-000305

SV-12506r2_rule Inetd and xinetd must be disabled or removed if no network services utilizing them are enabled.

Vulnerability discussion

Unnecessary services should be disabled to decrease the attack surface of the system.

Check content

First, determine if inetd/xinetd is running. # ps -ef |grep inetd If inetd is not running, this is not a finding. # grep -v "^#" /etc/inetd.conf If no active services are found, yet the inetd daemon is running, this is a finding.

Fix text

Remove or disable the inetd startup scripts and kill the service.

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