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The operating system must provide a real-time alert when organization-defined audit failure events occur.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-51501 OSX8-00-00310 SV-65711r1_rule Medium
Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Organizations must define audit failure events requiring an application to send an alarm. When those defined events occur, the application will provide a real-time alert to the appropriate personnel.
STIG Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG 2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53845r2_chk )
To verify that the system log is writing audit failure or warnings run the following command:

sudo grep logger /etc/security/audit_warn

If this does not return:

logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@"

this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-56305r1_fix)
Edit the /etc/security/audit_warn file to include the line:

logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@"