BigFix Compliance: Updated DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x, published 2022-12-20

Product:
BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x to support a more recent version of the benchmark

Security Benchmark:
IBM AIX 7.x Manual STIG Version 2, Release 6

Published Sites:
DISA STIG Checklist for AIX 7.x, site version 5
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:

Release notes:

  • AIX7-00-001032 Now searches in /root instead of /home/root.
  • AIX7-00-002141 The group owner of /etc/hosts should be system.
  • AIX7-00-002145 The group owner of /etc/syslog.conf should be system.
  • AIX7-00-002147 The owner of /var/spool/cron/atjobs should be bin or root.
  • AIX7-00-002148 The group owner of /var/spool/cron/atjobs should be cron.
  • AIX7-00-002058 Now checks for exec.
  • AIX7-00-001135 Now checks to see if snmpd is active first.

Actions to take:

More information:

To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the following resources:
· BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance
· BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective. Thank you!

-The BigFix Compliance team