New field seen in audit.log

[Steve Grubb]

Hello,

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:36:43 PM EDT Ankitha Kundhuru wrote:
> I found a new word "per" in some of the records of my audit.log.
> Any idea of why this happened 

The process personality is not normal. 

> and what it means ?

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation/blob/master/specs/fields/
field-dictionary.csv#L176

You can use ausearch -i to decode it.

-Steve

> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1571245536.351:43593): arch=c000003e syscall=3
> *per=40000* success=yes exit=0 a0=5 a1=5 a2=556213b6d6bc a3=7f483b98bcc0
> items=0 ppid=2653 pid=2655 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000
> fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=pts1 ses=3 comm="gdb"
> exe="/usr/bin/gdb" key=(null)
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ankitha Kundhuru