Bonjour multicast advertising must be disabled on the system.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000382

SV-65759r1_rule Bonjour multicast advertising must be disabled on the system.

Vulnerability discussion

Check content

To check if multicast advertisements have been disabled, run the following command: sudo defaults read /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder | grep NoMulticastAdvertisements If nothing is returned, this is a finding.

Fix text

To configure Bonjour to disable multicast advertising, run the following command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments:2 string '-NoMulticastAdvertisements'" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

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