[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Compliance: Updated DISA STIG Checklist for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, published 2025-07-23

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Product:

BigFix Compliance

Title:
Updated DISA STIG Checklist for SUSE 15

Security Benchmark:
DISA SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 STIG SCAP Benchmark, v2r4

Published Sites:
DISA STIG Checklist for SUSE Linux 15, site version 5
(The site version is provided for air-gap customers.)

Details:

Total New Fixlets: 0

Total Updated Fixlets: 7

Total Deleted Fixlets: 4

Total Fixlets in Site: 212

Updated Items:

The SUSE operating system for all network connections associated with SSH
traffic must immediately terminate at the end of the session or after 10
minutes of inactivity :- Updated Check and Fix Text to reflect the correct
configuration setting and added a statement to the Discussion text
explaining that this rule, in conjunction with ClientAliveInterval, will
meet the intent of setting the inactive session timeout to 10 minutes.

The SUSE operating system must off-load rsyslog messages for networked
systems in real time and off-load standalone systems at least weekly:-
Updated Fix Text.

The SUSE operating system must employ FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic
hashing algorithms for all stored passwords. - Updated hashing rounds to
100000 minimum.

The SUSE operating system audit event multiplexor must be configured to use
Kerberos:- Updated audit location.

The SUSE operating system must off-load audit records onto a different
system or media from the system being audited:- Updated audit location.

Audispd must take appropriate action when the SUSE operating system audit
storage is full:- Updated audit location.

The SUSE operating system must initiate a session lock after a 10-minute
period of inactivity:- Changed tmout to be consistent across STIGS.

Deleted Items:

The SUSE operating system must not allow passwords to be reused for a
minimum of five generations.

The SUSE operating system must initiate a session lock after a 15-minute
period of inactivity.

The SUSE operating system must implement the Endpoint Security for Linux
Threat Prevention tool.

The SUSE operating system must employ a password history file.

Additional details:

Both analysis and remediation checks are included.

Some of the checks allow you to use the parameterized setting to enable
customization for compliance evaluation. Note that parameterization and
remediation actions require the creation of a custom site.

Improved a few checks by adding the pending restart feature to them. The
pending restart feature works in the following ways:

The action results will show “Pending Restart” instead of “Fixed” for those
checks which require OS reboot.

The check will show relevant for those endpoints until they are rebooted.

Post reboot of the endpoint the action results will show as “Fixed” and the
check will be compliant.

Actions to take:

To subscribe to the above site, you can use the License Overview Dashboard
to enable and gather the site. Note that you must be entitled to the BigFix
Compliance product and you must be using BigFix version 10 and later.

If you use custom sites, update your custom sites accordingly to use the
latest content. You can synchronize your content by using the Synchronize
Custom Checks wizard. For more information, see Using the Synchronize
Custom Checks wizard
<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/compliance/Compliance/SCM_Users_Guide/c_using_synchronize_custom_checks_wiz.html>

More information:
To know more about the BigFix Compliance SCM checklists, please see the
following resources:

BigFix Forum:
https://forum.bigfix.com/c/release-announcements/compliance

BigFix Compliance SCM Checklists:
https://bigfix-wiki.hcltechsw.com/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/BigFix%20Wiki/page/SCM%20Checklists

We hope you find this latest release of SCM content useful and effective.
Thank you!

*– The BigFix Compliance team*
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