The audit system must be configured to audit modifications to the systems network configuration.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-OS-999999

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-50341r4_rule The audit system must be configured to audit modifications to the systems network configuration.

Vulnerability discussion

The network environment should not be modified by anything other than administrator action. Any change to network parameters should be audited.

Check content

If you are running x86_64 architecture, determine the values for sethostname: $ uname -m; ausyscall i386 sethostname; ausyscall x86_64 sethostname If the values returned are not identical verify that the system is configured to monitor network configuration changes for the i386 and x86_64 architectures: $ sudo egrep -w '(sethostname|setdomainname|/etc/issue|/etc/issue.net|/etc/hosts|/etc/sysconfig/network)' /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S sethostname -S setdomainname -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue.net -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/hosts -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/sysconfig/network -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S sethostname -S setdomainname -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue.net -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/hosts -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/sysconfig/network -p wa -k audit_network_modifications If the system is configured to watch for network configuration changes, a line should be returned for each file specified for both (and "-p wa" should be indicated for each). If the system is not configured to audit changes of the network configuration, this is a finding.

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Add the following to "/etc/audit/audit.rules", setting ARCH to either b32 or b64 as appropriate for your system: # audit_network_modifications -a always,exit -F arch=ARCH -S sethostname -S setdomainname -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/issue.net -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/hosts -p wa -k audit_network_modifications -w /etc/sysconfig/network -p wa -k audit_network_modifications

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