Title

The ttdbserver daemon must be disabled on AIX. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The ttdbserver service is the tool-talk database service for CDE. This service runs as root and should be disabled. Unless required the ttdbserver service will be disabled to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^#ttdbserver[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "ttdbserver" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'ttdbserver' -p 'sunrpc_tcp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215371r508663_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215371

Group Title: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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