Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Version

V1 · R18

CurrentPublished Fri Apr 28 2017

System audit logs must have mode 0640 or less permissive.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

System audit logs must have mode 0640 or less permissive.

Description

Discussion Text

If a user can write to the audit logs, audit trails can be modified or destroyed and system intrusion may not be detected. System audit logs are those files generated from the audit system and do not include activity, error, or other log files created by application software.

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Objective

V-813

Rule

SV-37916r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN002700

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Perform the following to determine the location of audit logs and then check the mode of the files.
Procedure:
# grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf|sed s/^[^\/]*//|xargs stat -c %a:%n

If any audit log file has a mode more permissive than 0640, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the mode of the audit log directories/files.
# chmod 0750 <audit directory>
# chmod 0640 <audit file>

STIG check 491 of 571 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 STIG checklist

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