SV-234978r1009573: The SUSE operating system must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited. | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

The SUSE operating system must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited.

Description

Discussion Text

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

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-001851

References

DPMS Target SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 DISA DPMS Target SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 5274

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.sles15os:def:234978
# The SUSE operating system must off-load audit records onto a different system or media from the system being audited.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  ( (sed -En 's/^[ \t]*network_failure_action[ \t]*=[ \t]*(\w+)[ \t]*(?:#.*)?$/\1/p' '/etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf') | grep -Pq '(?i)^syslog$' ) || ( (sed -En 's/^[ \t]*network_failure_action[ \t]*=[ \t]*(\w+)[ \t]*(?:#.*)?$/\1/p' '/etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf') | grep -Pq '(?i)^single$' ) || ( (sed -En 's/^[ \t]*network_failure_action[ \t]*=[ \t]*(\w+)[ \t]*(?:#.*)?$/\1/p' '/etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf') | grep -Pq '(?i)^halt$' )
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# DISA STIG / SCAP compliance check for SUSE OS audit record off-loading: oval:mil.disa.stig.sles15os:def:234978
if [ ! -f "/etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf" ]; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi
grep -qE "^[ \t]*network_failure_action[ \t]*=[ \t]*(syslog|single|halt)[ \t]*(?:#.*)?$" /etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf || { echo "FAIL"; exit 1; }
echo "PASS"; exit 0;

Remediation

Configure the SUSE operating system to take the appropriate action if it cannot off-load audit records to a different system or storage media from the system being audited due to a network failure.

Uncomment the "network_failure_action" option in "/etc/audit/audisp-remote.conf" and set it to "syslog", "single", or "halt". See the example below:

network_failure_action = syslog