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The information system security officer (ISSO) and system administrator (SA), at a minimum, must have mail aliases to be notified of a SLEM 5 audit processing failure.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-261423SLEM-05-653075SV-261423r996677_ruleCCI-000139medium
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. This requirement applies to each audit data storage repository (i.e., distinct information system component where audit records are stored), the centralized audit storage capacity of organizations (i.e., all audit data storage repositories combined), or both.
STIGDate
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLEM) 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-10

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-05Response To Event Log Processing Failures
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (20) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(1)System-wide and Time-correlated Audit Trail
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
AU-5(1)Storage Capacity Warning
1.00
AU-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00
AU-6(4)Central Review and Analysis
1.00

+10 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.3.4
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000139
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-261423r996677_chk)

Verify the administrators are notified in the event of a SLEM 5 audit processing failure with the following commands: > grep -i "^postmaster:" /etc/aliases postmaster: root If the above command does not return a value of "root", or the output is commented out, this is a finding. Verify the alias for root forwards to a monitored e-mail account: > grep -i "^root:" /etc/aliases root: person@server.mil If the alias for root does not forward to a monitored e-mail account, or the output is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-65060r996676_fix)

Configure the auditd service to notify the administrators in the event of a SLEM 5 audit processing failure. Configure an alias value for the postmaster with the following command: > sudo sh -c 'echo "postmaster: root" >> /etc/aliases' Configure an alias for root that forwards to a monitored email address with the following command: > sudo sh -c 'echo "root: box@server.mil" >> /etc/aliases' The following command must be run to implement changes to the /etc/aliases file: > sudo newaliases