Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

The Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide (V2 R4) has 507 STIG checks. New to STIG checklists? Read What is a STIG checklist?, CKL vs CKLB, and STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

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Version

V2 · R4

CurrentPublished Thu Jan 26 2023

The /etc/security/audit_user file must be group-owned by root, sys, or bin.

Solaris 10 SPARC Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The /etc/security/audit_user file must be group-owned by root, sys, or bin.

Description

Discussion Text

The Solaris audit_user file allows for selective auditing or non-auditing of features for certain users. If it is not protected, it could be compromised and used to mask audit events. This could cause the loss of valuable forensics data in the case of a system compromise.

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Objective

V-226408

Rule

SV-226408r603265_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

GEN000000-SOL00080

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Check /etc/security/audit_user group ownership.

# ls -lL /etc/security/audit_user

If /etc/security/audit_user is not group owned by root, sys, or bin, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

Change the group owner of the audit_user file to root, bin, or sys.
Example:
# chgrp root /etc/security/audit_user

STIG check 54 of 507 in the Solaris 10 SPARC STIG checklist

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