The system must not have the systat service active.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-001436

SV-38717r1_rule The system must not have the systat service active.

Vulnerability discussion

The systat daemon allows remote users to see the running process and who is running them. This may aid in information collection for an attack and weaken the security posture of the system.

Check content

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

Fix text

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

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