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AIX7-00-003077 - The sprayd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Information

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.

Solution

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

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_IBM_AIX_7-x_V3R3_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-215382r958478_rule, STIG-ID|AIX7-00-003077, STIG-Legacy|SV-101493, STIG-Legacy|V-91395, Vuln-ID|V-215382

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: e20dc936be7ab18b88a8bbefb459d969c6e9853221a93f6b21835363b3a1580e