From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Paris Subject: Re: Multiple EXECVE records Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:18:22 -0400 Message-ID: <1236860302.6506.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1236770038.8878.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1236770038.8878.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: Matthew Booth Cc: linux-audit List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 11:13 +0000, Matthew Booth wrote: > Any idea what this means: > > type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): arch=40000003 syscall=11 > success=yes exit=0 a0=9d1e668 a1=9d23e50 a2 > type=EXECVE msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): argc=4 a0="/bin/sh" > a1="/sbin/service" a2="sshd" a3="restart" > type=EXECVE msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): argc=3 a0="/bin/sh" > a1="/sbin/service" a2="sshd" > type=CWD msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): cwd="/root" > type=PATH msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): item=0 name="/sbin/service" > inode=189083 dev=fc:01 mode=0100755 ouid=0 > type=PATH msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): item=1 name=(null) inode=251907 > dev=fc:01 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rd > type=PATH msg=audit(1236769790.766:247): item=2 name=(null) inode=315525 > dev=fc:01 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rd > > Note that there are 2 EXECVE records there. This was generated by RHEL > 5.3 i386. Something went wrong that shouldn't have? File a BZ and CC me so I'll remember to take a look. A reproducer would be GREAT! Multi-part execve records can be normal (if the execve logging is too long to for a single audit message), but this is about x1.75 of a single record. Doesn't seem right.