Title

Amazon Linux 2023 systemd-journald service must be enabled. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the information system or a component of the system. Preserving operating system state information helps to facilitate operating system restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with least disruption to mission/business processes.

Check Content

Verify Amazon Linux 2023 is configured so that "systemd-journald" is active with the following command: $ systemctl is-active systemd-journald active If the systemd-journald service is not active, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to enable the systemd-journald service with the following command: $ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-274000r1119988_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-274000

Group Title: SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103

Expert Comments

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