[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content Modification Announcement - BigFix Security Configuration Management (SCM) DISA Benchmarks for Unix

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

BigFix, an IBM Company, has modified content in the following Security
Configuration Management (SCM) v3 benchmarks:

* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on AIX 5.1
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on AIX 5.2
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on AIX 5.3
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on AIX 6.1
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on HPUX 11.00
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on HPUX 11.11
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on HPUX 11.23
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on RHEL 3
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on RHEL 4
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on RHEL 5
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on Solaris 8
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on Solaris 9
* SCM Checklist for DISA STIG on Solaris 10


This update addresses a number of issues, including:

- All content Source Release Date fields updated to 8/27/10 to reflect
current DISA guidance.

- GEN003000 and GEN003020: fixed an issue where the fixlets wrote errors to
the log if the file run from cron did not exist.
(//depot/unix_scm/main/Linux/3/GEN003000.detect, //depot/unix_scm/main/SunOS/5.10/GEN003020.detect)

- GEN001160: fixed an issue where the buffer overflowed if there was a
large number of unowned files.
(//depot/unix_scm/main/SunOS/5.10/GEN001160.detect)

- GEN002200: add /g to sed for EXCLUDEFILES
(//depot/unix_scm/main/SunOS/5.10/GEN002200.detect, //depot/unix_scm/main/SunOS/5.10/GEN002200.remediate)


ACTIONS TO TAKE
All customers that currently license the SCMv3 solution module, SCVM
solution pack, or SLM+SCVM solution bundle may gather this content update.
BES administrators are encouraged to verify open actions as necessary.  If
you are using custom sites based on BigFix content, you will need to
manually update the content in those sites with the content in the BigFix
out of the box sites.

Please contact BigFix Technical Support if you have any questions regarding
this change. Thank you.


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Application Engineering Team
BigFix, an IBM Company