The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that the audit system takes appropriate action when the audit storage volume is full.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Taking appropriate action in case of a filled audit storage volume will minimize the possibility of losing audit records. One method of off-loading audit logs in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is with the use of the audisp-remote dameon.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-204511r877390_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the action the operating system takes if the disk the audit records are written to becomes full.
Uncomment or edit the "disk_full_action" option in "/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf" and set it to "syslog", "single", or "halt", such as the following line:
disk_full_action = single