The operating system must protect the audit records resulting from non-local accesses to privileged accounts and the execution of privileged functions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000217-NA	SRG-OS-000217-NA	SRG-OS-000217-NA_rule		Medium

Description
Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Care must be taken to ensure privileged users cannot circumvent audit protections put in place. Auditing might not be reliable when performed by an operating system which the user being audited has privileged access to. The privileged user could inhibit auditing or directly modify audit records. To prevent this from occurring, privileged access shall be further defined between audit-related privileges and other privileges, thus, limiting the users with audit-related privileges.

Description

Protection of audit records and audit data is of critical importance. Care must be taken to ensure privileged users cannot circumvent audit protections put in place. Auditing might not be reliable when performed by an operating system which the user being audited has privileged access to. The privileged user could inhibit auditing or directly modify audit records. To prevent this from occurring, privileged access shall be further defined between audit-related privileges and other privileges, thus, limiting the users with audit-related privileges.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-02-05

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000217-NA_chk )
RHEL6 cannot support this requirement without assistance from an external application, policy, or service. This requirement is NA.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000217-NA_fix)
This requirement is NA. No fix is required.