Title

AIX audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Without privileged group owners, audio devices will be vulnerable to being used as eaves-dropping devices by malicious users or intruders to possibly listen to conversations containing sensitive information.

Check Content

Check the group owner of audio devices using commands: # /usr/sbin/lsdev -C | grep -i audio aud0 Available USB Audio Device # ls -lL /dev/*aud0 cr--r--r-- 1 root system 16, 0 Jan 24 07:25 aud0 If the group owner of an audio device is not "root", "sys", "bin", or "system", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the group owner of the audio device using command: # chgrp system <audio device>

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215271r991589_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215271

Group Title: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

Expert Comments

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