The system package management tool must be used to verify system software periodically.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Part of GEN006565

Associated with IA controls: ECAT-1

Associated with: CCI-000366 CCI-000698

SV-38958r1_rule The system package management tool must be used to verify system software periodically.

Vulnerability discussion

Verification using the system package management tool can be used to determine that system software has not been tampered with.This requirement is not applicable to systems that do not use package management tools.

Check content

Check the root crontab for a job invoking the system package management tool to verify the integrity of installed packages. # crontab -l | grep lppchk If no such job exists, this is a finding.

Fix text

Add a job to the root crontab invoking the system package management tool to verify the integrity of installed packages. # lppchk -c

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