The system must retain enough rotated audit logs to cover the required log retention period.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-50437r1_rule The system must retain enough rotated audit logs to cover the required log retention period.

Vulnerability discussion

The total storage for audit log files must be large enough to retain log information over the period required. This is a function of the maximum log file size and the number of logs retained.

Check content

Inspect "/etc/audit/auditd.conf" and locate the following line to determine how many logs the system is configured to retain after rotation: "# grep num_logs /etc/audit/auditd.conf" num_logs = 5 If the overall system log file(s) retention hasn't been properly set up, this is a finding.

Fix text

Determine how many log files "auditd" should retain when it rotates logs. Edit the file "/etc/audit/auditd.conf". Add or modify the following line, substituting [NUMLOGS] with the correct value: num_logs = [NUMLOGS] Set the value to 5 for general-purpose systems. Note that values less than 2 result in no log rotation.

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