The system must not have the comsat service active.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-001436

SV-38707r1_rule The system must not have the comsat service active.

Vulnerability discussion

The comsat daemon notifies users on incoming email. This is an unnecessary service and is vulnerable to a flood attack. Running unnecessary services increases the attack vector of the system.

Check content

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

Fix text

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

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