Rule ID
SV-256516r958566_rule
Version
V1R4
CCIs
Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state and can provide sensitive information to an unprivileged attacker.
At the command line, run the following command: # stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G with %a permissions" /var/log/messages If the "/var/log/messages" directory is not owned by root or not group owned by root, or the file permissions are more permission than "640", this is a finding.
At the command line, run the following commands: # chown root:root /var/log/messages # chmod 0640 /var/log/messages