Details

An operating system release is considered ‘supported’ if the vendor continues to provide security patches for the product. With an unsupported release, it will not be possible to resolve security issues discovered in the system software.

Solution

Upgrade to a supported version of the operating system.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_AIX_6-1_V1R14_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Information Integrity.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SI-2d.
• CAT|I
• CCI|CCI-001230
• Group-ID|V-11940
• Rule-ID|SV-27052r2_rule
• STIG-ID|GEN000100
• Vuln-ID|V-11940

Source

• Tenable.com/audits