STIGUI
V-217254CAT II — Medium severitySV-217254r958412_rule

The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the delete_module command.

Rule version SLES-12-020730 · STIG v3 · 2025-11-24

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).

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 "delete_module" command.

Check 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 -i delete_module /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S delete_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k unload_module -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S delete_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k unload_module

If both the "b32" and "b64" audit rules are not defined for the "unload_module" syscall, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate an audit record for all uses of the "delete_module" command.

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

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S delete_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k unload_module -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S delete_module -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k unload_module

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

# sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

Identifiers

Group ID
V-217254
Group title
SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Rule ID
SV-217254r958412_rule
Check ID
C-18482r369918_chk
Fix ID
F-18480r369919_fix