If AIX server does not host an SNMP agent, the dpid2 daemon must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215364	AIX7-00-003058	SV-215364r958478_rule		Medium

Description

The dpid2 daemon acts as a protocol converter, which enables DPI (SNMP v2) sub-agents, such as hostmibd, to talk to a SNMP v1 agent that follows SNMP MUX protocol. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-08-16

Details

Check Text (C-16562r294543_chk)

From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/dpid2" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16560r294544_fix)

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "dpid2" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d dpid2