The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the loading and unloading of dynamic kernel modules.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, 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). Satisfies: SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222

ID: SV-258851r991580_rule
Version: PHTN-40-000175
Severity: Medium
References: CCI-000172
Updated: about 2 months ago

Remediation Templates

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.STIG.rules

Add or update the following lines:
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S init_module -F key=modules
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S init_module -F key=modules

At the command line, run the following command to load the new audit rules:

# /sbin/augenrules --load

Note: An "audit.STIG.rules" file is provided with this guidance for placement in "/etc/audit/rules.d" that contains all rules needed for auditd.

Note: An older "audit.STIG.rules" may exist and may reference older "GEN" SRG IDs. This file can be removed and replaced as necessary with an updated one.

The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the loading and unloading of dynamic kernel modules.

Description

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure