System audit tool executables must be group-owned by bin, sys, or system.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-001493

SV-38906r1_rule System audit tool executables must be group-owned by bin, sys, or system.

Vulnerability discussion

To prevent unauthorized access or manipulation of system audit logs, the tools for manipulating those logs must be protected.

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Determine the group ownership of system audit tool executables. Audit tools include, but are not limited to, audit, auditcat, auditconv, auditpr, auditselect, auditstream, auditbin, and auditmerge. Procedure: # ls -lL `which ` If any system audit tool executable is not group-owned by bin, sys, or system, this is a finding.

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Change the group owner of system audit tool executables to root, bin, sys, or system. Procedure: # chgrp system < system audit tool executable>

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