OL08-00-030700 - OL 8 must take appropriate action when the internal event queue is full.

Information

Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.

Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.

OL 8 installation media provides 'rsyslogd'. This is a system utility providing support for message logging. Support for both internet and UNIX domain sockets enables this utility to support both local and remote logging. Coupling this utility with 'gnutls' (which is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols) provides a method to securely encrypt and offload auditing.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

Solution

Edit the '/etc/audit/auditd.conf' file and add or update the 'overflow_action' option:

overflow_action = syslog

The audit daemon must be restarted for changes to take effect.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_Linux_8_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-4(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001851, Rule-ID|SV-248815r958754_rule, STIG-ID|OL08-00-030700, Vuln-ID|V-248815

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 40b59104b25f62f1c8168cc6a5abf8c730dd6083e2688d15944b6835f9a284d1