The Ubuntu operating system must generate audit records upon successful/unsuccessful use of unlink, unlinkat, rename, renameat, and rmdir system calls.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-219287	UBTU-18-010375	SV-219287r809526_rule		Medium

Description
Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The system call rules are loaded into a matching engine that intercepts each syscall made by all programs on the system. Therefore, it is very important to use syscall rules only when absolutely necessary since these affect performance. The more rules, the bigger the performance hit. The performance is helped, however, by combining syscalls into one rule whenever possible.

Description

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The system call rules are loaded into a matching engine that intercepts each syscall made by all programs on the system. Therefore, it is very important to use syscall rules only when absolutely necessary since these affect performance. The more rules, the bigger the performance hit. The performance is helped, however, by combining syscalls into one rule whenever possible.

STIG	Date
Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-02-16

Details

Check Text ( C-21012r809524_chk )
Verify the Ubuntu operating system generates audit records upon successful/unsuccessful use of "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" system calls. Check the currently configured audit rules with the following command: # sudo auditctl -l \| grep 'unlink\\|rename\\|rmdir' -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -k delete -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -k delete If the command does not return audit rules for the "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" syscalls or the lines are commented out, this is a finding. Notes: For 32-bit architectures, only the 32-bit specific output lines from the commands are required. The "-k" allows for specifying an arbitrary identifier and the string after it does not need to match the example output above.

Check Text ( C-21012r809524_chk )

Verify the Ubuntu operating system generates audit records upon successful/unsuccessful use of "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" system calls.

Check the currently configured audit rules with the following command:

# sudo auditctl -l | grep 'unlink\|rename\|rmdir'

-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -k delete
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -k delete

If the command does not return audit rules for the "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" syscalls or the lines are commented out, this is a finding.

Notes:
For 32-bit architectures, only the 32-bit specific output lines from the commands are required.
The "-k" allows for specifying an arbitrary identifier and the string after it does not need to match the example output above.

Fix Text (F-21011r809525_fix)
Configure the audit system to generate audit events upon successful/unsuccessful use of "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" system calls. Add or update the following rules in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/stig.rules" file: -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -Fauid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k delete -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k delete Notes: For 32-bit architectures, only the 32-bit specific entries are required. The "root" account must be used to view/edit any files in the /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory. To reload the rules file, issue the following command: # sudo augenrules --load

Fix Text (F-21011r809525_fix)

Configure the audit system to generate audit events upon successful/unsuccessful use of "unlink", "unlinkat", "rename", "renameat", and "rmdir" system calls.

Add or update the following rules in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/stig.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -Fauid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k delete
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S unlink,unlinkat,rename,renameat,rmdir -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k delete

Notes: For 32-bit architectures, only the 32-bit specific entries are required.
The "root" account must be used to view/edit any files in the /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory.

To reload the rules file, issue the following command:

# sudo augenrules --load