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1.146 OL09-00-000770

Information

OL 9 audit system must take appropriate action when the audit files have reached maximum size.

GROUP ID: V-271581
RULE ID: SV-271581r1091455

It is critical that when the operating system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it takes action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors; failures in the audit capturing mechanisms; and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Responses to audit failure depend upon the nature of the failure mode.

Solution

Configure OL 9 to rotate the audit log when it reaches maximum size.

Add or update the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" file:

max_log_file_action = ROTATE

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/27024

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-12a., CCI|CCI-000169, Rule-ID|SV-271581r1091455_rule, STIG-ID|OL09-00-000770, Vuln-ID|V-271581

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 1dfaf048960509a02b4534f65be98a2cde2b29c4f4d6329979c6d9167009adf6