Etherstatd service

Risk Level: Low risk vulnerability  Low

Check or Attack Name: etherstatd

Platforms: Unix
Description:

The RPC etherstatd service has been detected as running. The etherstatd service puts a specified ethernet interface into promiscuous mode and provides traffic statistics to remote programs. This program registers itself with the RPC portmapper as program 100010.

Remedy:

This service should be disabled if you do not wish remote users to be able to view your network traffic statistics.

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