SLEM 5 must offload audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-261416	SLEM-05-653040	SV-261416r996660_rule		Medium

Description
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.

STIG	Date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-04

Details

Check Text ( C-65145r996658_chk )
Verify what action the audit system takes if it cannot offload audit records to a different system or storage media from SLEM 5 being audited. Check the action that the audit system takes in the event of a network failure with the following command: > sudo grep -i "network_failure_action" /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf network_failure_action = syslog If the "network_failure_action" option is not set to "syslog", "single", or "halt" or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-65145r996658_chk )

Verify what action the audit system takes if it cannot offload audit records to a different system or storage media from SLEM 5 being audited.

Check the action that the audit system takes in the event of a network failure with the following command:

> sudo grep -i "network_failure_action" /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf
network_failure_action = syslog

If the "network_failure_action" option is not set to "syslog", "single", or "halt" or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-65053r996659_fix)
Configure SLEM 5 to take the appropriate action if it cannot offload audit records to a different system or storage media from the system being audited due to a network failure. Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf" file: network_failure_action = syslog