[ibm-aix-ibmi-hosting] Recurring security scans - and actions to be taken.

[Lance Albertson]

I haven't had a chance to look at the recent reports. I was waiting on the
report for this week to send an update but haven't gotten it yet. Once I
get the most recent report, I'll send an update. There hasn't been much
change in the past few weeks when I checked so I'm going to assume similar
findings.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 11:27 PM Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl> wrote:

> And, are we passing? I know a lot of work was being done - has that been
> effective?
> On 21/09/2021 21:09, Lance Albertson wrote:
>
> Here's the latest report we got yesterday. Can we please fix the NTP issue
> and the X Server issue soon please?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:57 AM Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> * per below, mariadb is fixed.
>> * in earlier convos, golang admins have indicated they will update the
>> HTTP software.
>> * I have opened a slack chat with ojdk infrastructure re: the active
>> port 6000. The jenkins user is starting the program /usr/bin/X11/X - if
>> it is needed for testing my proposal will be to block port 6000 on the
>> WAN interface (leaving it open on 127.0.0.1).
>>
>> On 25/08/2021 05:44, Daniel Black wrote:
>> > Opps, me looks up
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:44 AM Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl>
>> wrote:
>> >> If you don't need any of the inetd services - also stop the inetd
>> process.
>> >>
>> >> # /usr/sbin/chrctcp -S -d inetd
>> >>
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 1:43 PM Daniel Black <daniel at mariadb.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:09 AM Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>> All,
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for resolving the issues as reported last week. It looks like
>> all of the ntp problems have been resolved! I've attached the report from
>> yesterday so everyone can see.
>> >>>
>> >>> However we do have a few issues left that need to be fixed. It
>> appears that rexecd is running again on p8-aix1-mariadb.osuosl.org. We
>> need to make sure that service is either disabled always or at least
>> blocked off.
>> >> Thanks Lance,
>> >>
>> >> Seems corrected - (thanks Michael?)
>> >>
>> >> root at p8-aix1-mariadb:[/root]egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/inetd.conf
>> >> daytime stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal
>> >> time    stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal
>> >> daytime dgram   udp     wait    root    internal
>> >> time    dgram   udp     wait    root    internal
>> >> xmquery dgram   udp6    wait    root    /usr/bin/xmtopas xmtopas -p3
>> >> caa_cfg stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/clusterconf
>> >> clusterconf >>/var/adm/ras/clusterconf.log 2>&1
>> >>
>> >> root at p8-aix1-mariadb:[/root]grep exec /etc/inetd.conf
>> >> ##      needs to be executed for inetd to re-read the inetd.conf file.
>> >> #exec    stream  tcp6    nowait  root    /usr/sbin/rexecd       rexecd
>> >>
>> >> Is disabling inetd possible/recommended?
>> >>
>> >> Is commenting all /etc/inetd.conf service the right way?
>> >>
>> >> Is disabling /etc/rc.tcpip to disable inetd and others sane?
>> >>
>> >> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=files-rctcpip-file-tcpip
>> >>
>> >>> I'll check back on this next week to see any progress.
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