The Photon operating system must alert the ISSO and SA in the event of an audit processing failure.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-258810	SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022	PHTN-40-000021	SV-258810r958424_rule	2024-07-11	2

Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000344-GPOS-00135

Description

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000344-GPOS-00135

ℹ️ Check
At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to send an alert via syslog in the event of an audit processing failure: # grep -E "^disk_full_action\|^disk_error_action\|^admin_space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG If "disk_full_action", "disk_error_action", and "admin_space_left_action" are not set to SYSLOG or are missing, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to send an alert via syslog in the event of an audit processing failure: # grep -E "^disk_full_action|^disk_error_action|^admin_space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG If "disk_full_action", "disk_error_action", and "admin_space_left_action" are not set to SYSLOG or are missing, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Navigate to and open: /etc/audit/auditd.conf Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented: disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG At the command line, run the following command: # pkill -SIGHUP auditd