SLES-12-020360 - The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the kmod command.

Information

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.

Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter).

The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records.

DoD has defined the following list of events for which the SUSE operating system will provide an audit record generation capability:

1) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels);

2) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities or other system-level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system;

3) All account creations, modifications, disabling, and terminations; and

4) All kernel module load, unload, and restart actions.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Solution

Configure the SUSE operating system to audit the execution of the module management program 'kmod' by adding the following line to '/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules':

-w /usr/bin/kmod -p x -k modules

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

# sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_SLES_12_V2R13_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, MAINTENANCE

References: 800-53|AU-3, 800-53|AU-12a., 800-53|AU-12c., 800-53|MA-4(1)(a), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000130, CCI|CCI-000169, CCI|CCI-000172, CCI|CCI-002884, Rule-ID|SV-217217r854119_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-12-020360, STIG-Legacy|SV-92043, STIG-Legacy|V-77347, Vuln-ID|V-217217

Plugin: Unix

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