RHEL 9 must take appropriate action when a critical audit processing failure occurs.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258227	RHEL-09-654265	SV-258227r926668_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. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

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. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000047-GPOS-00023

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-12-01

Details

Check Text ( C-61968r926666_chk )
Verify the audit service is configured to panic on a critical error with the following command: $ sudo grep "\-f" /etc/audit/audit.rules -f 2 If the value for "-f" is not "2", and availability is not documented as an overriding concern, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-61892r926667_fix)
Configure RHEL 9 to shut down when auditing failures occur. Add the following line to the bottom of the /etc/audit/audit.rules file: -f 2