The system must not have the Calendar Manager Service Daemon (CMSD) service active.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-001436

SV-38705r1_rule The system must not have the Calendar Manager Service Daemon (CMSD) service active.

Vulnerability discussion

The CMSD service for CDE is an unnecessary process that runs a root and increases attack vector of the system. Buffer overflow attacks against the CMSD process can potentially give access to the system.

Check content

Check the /etc/inetd.conf file for active CMSD service. # grep 'rpc\.cmsd' /etc/inetd.conf |grep -v \# If the CMSD service is enabled, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the CMSD service. Restart the inetd service. # refresh -s inetd

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