From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4AA96193.7020905@tycho.nsa.gov> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:29:07 -0400 From: Eamon Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominick Grift CC: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: XACE: tclass malformed References: <20090910160307.GA6469@notebook3.grift.internal> In-Reply-To: <20090910160307.GA6469@notebook3.grift.internal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On 09/10/2009 12:03 PM, Dominick Grift wrote: > Some XACE avc denials end up in /var/log/messages as opposed to /var/log/audit/audit.log. These particular XACE avc denials appear with a malformed tclass field: > > Example: > > Sep 10 17:50:31 notebook3 Xephyr: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC avc: denied { get_property } for request=X11:GetProperty comm=/usr/bin/xterm resid=102 restype=WINDOW scontext=dgrift_u:dgrift_r:sandbox_x_client_t:s0:c29,c36 tcontext=dgrift_u:object_r:sandbox_xserver_t:s0:c29,c36 tclass=x_drawable#012: exe="/usr/bin/Xephyr" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=? > > note the: tclass=x_drawable#012: > > I believe this may be the reason why these avc denials end up in /var/log/messages instead of /var/log/audit/audit.log , but i am not sure. > > Can you take a look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. The same avc's are printed there, please let me know if the message is malformed in the Xorg.0.log file as well. -- Eamon Walsh National Security Agency -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.