The sprayd daemon must be disabled on AIX.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-215382 | SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | AIX7-00-003077 | SV-215382r958478_rule | 2024-08-16 | 3 |
| Description |
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| The sprayd service is used as a tool to generate UDP packets for testing and diagnosing network problems. The service must be disabled if NFS is not in use, as it can be used by attackers in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^sprayd[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf If there is any output from the command, this is a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "sprayd" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'sprayd' -p 'udp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd |