| VID |
11002 |
| Severity |
20 |
| Port |
11 |
| Protocol |
TCP |
| Class |
Info |
| Detailed Description |
The "systat" service provides useful informations to crackers, such as which processes are running, who is running them, and so on... It is highly recommanded that you get rid of this service.
* References:
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/2991.php |
| Recommendation |
Comment out the "systat" line in /etc/inetd.conf and revoke 'inetd' daemon.
*Solaris 10, Solaris 11:
# svcadm disable svc:/network/systat/tcp:default
*Enterprise Linux 6.4, CentOS 6.4, Fedora 19:
Open /etc/xinetd.d/systat and set disable=yes
and then restart xinetd
OR
# service systat stop |
| Related URL |
CVE-1999-0637 (CVE) |
| Related URL |
(SecurityFocus) |
| Related URL |
(ISS) |
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