GEN002360 - Audio devices must be group-owned by root, sys, bin, or system.

Information

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.

Solution

Change the group owner of the audio device.
Procedure:
# chgrp system <audio device>

See Also

http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_STIG_Library_2015_07.zip