Do Not Use auditctl to Set auditd Rules

auditd service rules can be configured using either rule files in the /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory applied after server restart or the auditctl command for immediate effect. The permission of the /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory is 750, while that of the auditctl command is 755. Therefore,...

Linux: Read /etc/audit/audit.rules (KB)

audit.rules is a file containing audit rules that will be loaded by the audit daemons init script whenever the daemon is started. The auditctl program is used by the initscripts to perform this operation. The syntax for the rules is essentially the same as when typing in an auditctl command at a...

CVE-2007-0001: Undefined Security Weakness

The file watch implementation in the audit subsystem auditctl -w in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 kernel 2.6.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel panic by replacing a watched file, which does not cause the watch on the old inode to be dropped...