ausearch results differ with "-i" flag

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Tue Mar 16 22:18:26 UTC 2010


I am doing an ausearch and noticed that with the "-i" flag the "comm="
field appears to lose the data.
The bad thing is that this appears inside the "msg=" string, and I feel
that it shouldn't be interpreting those values anyway.

I saw that the audit-viewer does parse out the "comm=" field correctly
when I look at the same event.

First the event without the "-i" flag:
----
time->Tue Mar 16 21:53:50 2010
node=jcdx type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1268776430.236:6808): user pid=2835
uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023 msg='avc:  denied
{ write } for request=X11:PolyRectangle comm=MLTracks resid=5d
restype=WINDOW scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t:s6:c0.c511
tcontext=system_u:object_r:xdm_rootwindow_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
tclass=x_drawable : exe="/usr/bin/Xorg" (sauid=0, hostname=?, addr=?,
terminal=?)'
----


Same event appears to lose the "comm" field with the "-i" flag:
----
node=jcdx type=USER_AVC msg=audit(03/16/2010 21:53:50.236:6808) : user
pid=2835 uid=root auid=unset ses=4294967295
subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023 msg='avc:  denied
{ write } for request=X11:PolyRectangle comm=(null) resid=5d
restype=WINDOW scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t:s6:c0.c511
tcontext=system_u:object_r:xdm_rootwindow_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
tclass=x_drawable : exe=/usr/bin/Xorg (sauid=root  hostname=?, addr=?,
terminal=?)' 
-- 
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny at magitekltd.com




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