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V-215423CAT II — Medium severitySV-215423r1268251_rule

The global initialization file lists of preloaded libraries must contain only absolute paths on AIX.

Rule version AIX7-00-003128 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

The library preload list environment variable contains a list of libraries for the dynamic linker to load before loading the libraries required by the binary. If this list contains paths to libraries relative to the current working directory, unintended libraries may be preloaded.

Check

Check the global initialization files' library preload list using command:

# grep LDR_PRELOAD /etc/profile /etc/bashrc /etc/security/.login /etc/environment /etc/security/environ /etc/environment:LDR_PRELOAD=:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java7_64/jre/bin:/usr/java7_64/bin

This variable is formatted as a colon-separated list of paths.

If there is an empty entry, such as a leading or trailing colon, or two consecutive colons, this is a finding.

If an entry begins with a character other than a slash (/) or other than "$PATH", it is a relative path, and this is a finding.

Fix

Edit the global initialization files and remove the relative path entry from the library preload list variable 'LDR_PRELOAD'.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-215423
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-215423r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-16621r294720_chk
Fix ID
F-16619r294721_fix