Should open syscall records occur without a path record?

John D. Ramsdell ramsdell at mitre.org
Mon Jul 23 18:47:33 UTC 2007


Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> writes:

> There should be a PATH record for every open. Have you verified the
> logs or trusting ausearch?

The short version of what I found is that the missing PATH records
always appear in the raw logs, but both ausearch and auparse fail to
return some PATH records with their associated SYSCALL record.  A PATH
record gets ignored when another syscall event record occurs between
the SYSCALL record and the PATH record.

I'll send you a long version of my results off line as the data to
support the report is voluminous.

John




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