The system syslog service must log informational and more severe SMTP service messages.

From SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v11 for System z Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000126

SV-45858r1_rule The system syslog service must log informational and more severe SMTP service messages.

Vulnerability discussion

If informational and more severe SMTP service messages are not logged, malicious activity on the system may go unnoticed.

Check content

Check the syslog configuration file for mail.crit logging configuration. Procedure: # grep "mail\." /etc/rsyslog.conf If syslog is not configured to log critical sendmail messages ("mail.crit" or "mail.*"), this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the syslog configuration file and add a configuration line specifying an appropriate destination for "mail.crit" syslogs. For example: mail.* -/var/log/mail;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

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