The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the init_module and finit_module syscalls.

STIG ID: SLES-12-020740  |  SRG: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015 |  Severity: medium |  CCI: CCI-000130,CCI-000169,CCI-000172,CCI-002884 |  Vulnerability Id: V-217255 | 

Vulnerability Discussion

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).

The system call rules are loaded into a matching engine that intercepts each syscall made by all programs on the system. Therefore, it is very important to use syscall rules only when absolutely necessary since these affect performance. The more rules, the bigger the performance hit. The performance is helped, however, by combining syscalls into one rule whenever possible.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Check

Verify the SUSE operating system generates an audit record for all uses of the "init_module" and "finit_module" syscalls.

Verify that the following command call is being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

> sudo grep init_module /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S init_module,finit_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k moduleload
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S init_module,finit_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k moduleload

If both the "b32" and "b64" audit rules are not defined for the "init_module" and "finit_module" syscalls, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate an audit record for all uses of the "init_module" and "finit_module" syscalls.

Add or update the following rules to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S init_module,finit_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k moduleload
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S init_module,finit_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k moduleload

The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

> sudo systemctl restart auditd.service
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