The SUSE operating system must have the auditing package installed.

From SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129

Associated with: CCI-000172 CCI-001814 CCI-001875 CCI-001877 CCI-001878 CCI-001879 CCI-001880 CCI-001881 CCI-001882 CCI-001889 CCI-001914

SV-91983r3_rule The SUSE operating system must have the auditing package installed.

Vulnerability discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.Associating event types with detected events in the SUSE operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured SUSE operating system.Satisfies: SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145, SRG-OS-000359-GPOS-00146, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000474-GPOS-00219, SRG-OS-000475-GPOS-00220

Check content

Verify the SUSE operating system auditing package is installed. Check that the "audit" package is installed by performing the following command: # zypper se audit i | audit | User Space Tools for 2.6 Kernel Auditing If the package "audit" is not installed on the system, then this is a finding.

Fix text

The SUSE operating system auditd package must be installed on the system. If it is not installed, use the following command to install it: # sudo zypper in auditd

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