System audit logs must be group-owned by root, bin, sys, or system.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-22702	GEN002690	SV-37914r1_rule	ECLP-1 ECTP-1	Medium

Description
Sensitive system and user information could provide a malicious user with enough information to penetrate further into the system.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-06-12

Details

Check Text ( C-37140r1_chk )
Check the group ownership of the audit logs. Procedure: # grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf|sed s/^[^\/]*//|xargs stat -c %G:%n If any audit log file is not group-owned by root, bin, sys, or system, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-24520r1_fix)
Change the group ownership of the audit log file(s). Procedure: # chgrp root