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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must take appropriate action when the remote logging buffer is full.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. One method of off-loading audit logs in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is with the use of the audisp-remote dameon. When the remote buffer is full, audit logs will not be collected and sent to the central log server. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224

ID
SV-204507r877390_rule
Version
RHEL-07-030210
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Edit the /etc/audisp/audispd.conf file and add or update the "overflow_action" option:

overflow_action = syslog

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

# service auditd restart