Title

The pop3 daemon must be disabled on AIX. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The pop3 service provides a pop3 server. It supports the pop3 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmail. This service should be disabled if it is not required to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^pop3[[: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 "pop3" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'pop3' -p 'tcp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215388r958478_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215388

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

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