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From: "paul moore" <paulmoore100@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: hexified path in cwd audit message if dir no longer exists
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:42:47 -0700
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Aha - it actually says "xxxx (deleted)".
Which is OK I guess. But I would have thought that the unstrusted string
routine would know that this is a string generated by the kernel audit
system and so not escape it


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grubb [mailto:sgrubb@redhat.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 6:34 AM
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: paul moore
Subject: Re: hexified path in cwd audit message if dir no longer exists

On Friday 04 May 2007 20:47:19 paul moore wrote:
> Occasiaonally I get a CWD audit message that has a hexified path in it.
> Like this
>
> $1 = "audit(1178324383.479:1566):
> cwd=2F70726F632F35373336202864656C6574656429\000
> This is "/proc/5736"

Could you tell me what you get when you pull this event's record out with
ausearch -i ?

-Steve