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Bug 1271669

Summary:	audit2allow cannot parse boot date in some locales
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Component:	audit	Assignee:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	dapospis, dwalsh, lvrabec, mgrepl, mmalik, omoris, pkis, plautrba, pmoore, pvrabec, sgrubb, ssekidde
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Description Dalibor Pospíšil 2015-10-14 13:24:42 UTC

Description of problem:
audit2allow -b is trying to get boot time (I do not know from where) and it fail to decode it if LANG is set to some of the locales.

Following are the problematic ones, particularly on RHEL7.2:
ar_AE.iso88596, ar_AE.utf8, ar_BH, ar_BH.iso88596, ar_BH.utf8, ar_DZ, ar_DZ.iso88596, ar_DZ.utf8, ar_EG, ar_EG.iso88596, ar_EG.utf8, ar_IQ, ar_IQ.iso88596, ar_IQ.utf8, ar_JO, ar_JO.iso88596, ar_JO.utf8, ar_KW, ar_KW.iso88596, ar_KW.utf8, ar_LB, ar_LB.iso88596, ar_LB.utf8, ar_LY, ar_LY.iso88596, ar_LY.utf8, ar_MA, ar_MA.iso88596, ar_MA.utf8, ar_OM, ar_OM.iso88596, ar_OM.utf8, ar_QA, ar_QA.iso88596, ar_QA.utf8, ar_SD, ar_SD.iso88596, ar_SD.utf8, ar_SY, ar_SY.iso88596, ar_SY.utf8, ar_TN, ar_TN.iso88596, ar_TN.utf8, ar_YE, ar_YE.iso88596, ar_YE.utf8, as_IN, as_IN.utf8, bo_CN, bo_CN.utf8, bo_IN, bo_IN.utf8, bokmal, bokm, dz_BT, dz_BT.utf8, fa_IR, fa_IR.utf8, ja_JP, ja_JP.eucjp, ja_JP.ujis, ja_JP.utf8, japanese, japanese.euc, ko_KR, ko_KR.euckr, ko_KR.utf8, korean, korean.euc, nb_NO, nb_NO.iso88591, nb_NO.utf8, nn_NO, nn_NO.iso88591, nn_NO.utf8, no_NO, norwegian, nynorsk, or_IN, or_IN.utf8, sq_AL, sq_AL.iso88591, sq_AL.utf8, sq_MK, sq_MK.utf8, te_IN, te_IN.utf8, yue_HK, yue_HK.utf8, zh_CN, zh_CN.gb18030, zh_CN.gb2312, zh_CN.gbk, zh_CN.utf8, zh_HK, zh_HK.big5hkscs, zh_HK.utf8, zh_SG, zh_SG.gb2312, zh_SG.gbk, zh_SG.utf8, zh_TW, zh_TW.big5, zh_TW.euctw, zh_TW.utf8


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-2.2.5-15.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # LANG=ar_AE audit2allow -b
Invalid start time (CEST 03:54:08 ). Hour, Minute, and Second are required.

Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2015-10-14 14:28:38 UTC

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197235

Comment 2 Steve Grubb 2015-10-14 16:29:43 UTC

I tested this on F22, and it doesn't seem to have this problem. But then again I have logs that are recorded in en_US.UTF-8. 

What version of audit is being used?
Can you include 2 or 3 lines out logs generated from this command:
# grep audit /var/log/messages | grep 1400

Thanks

Comment 3 Dalibor Pospíšil 2015-11-10 09:45:41 UTC

After reboot I get:
# LANG=ar_AE audit2allow -b
Invalid start time (CET 10:36:03 ). Hour, Minute, and Second are required.

# grep audit /var/log/messages
Nov 10 07:45:01 sopos-rhel7-brq auditd[562]: Audit daemon rotating log files

Comment 4 Steve Grubb 2015-11-10 15:35:25 UTC

What I was asking for is samples of the logs that are causing the problems. I specifically wanted the ones with 1400 because those are AVC's. You also didn't answer the question about which version of audit you are using.

When I use the one and only one log line you pasted, I cannot reproduce the problem.

# echo "Nov 10 07:45:01 sopos-rhel7-brq auditd[562]: Audit daemon rotating log files" | LANG=ar_AE audit2allow -b
<no matches>

If I can't reproduce the error, I can't fix it. Thanks.

Comment 5 Dalibor Pospíšil 2015-11-11 16:59:56 UTC

I use audit-2.4.1-5.el7.

Actually I do not know where the boot timestamp comes form so I cannot check the format.

Comment 6 Steve Grubb 2016-01-13 20:43:37 UTC

Going back to comment #2, I need some log samples to look at. Can you run the following for me:

# grep 'type=AVC' /var/log/audit/audit.log | head -n 3

Comment 7 Steve Grubb 2016-01-13 23:53:11 UTC

Looking through the sepolgen code I find this:

    fd=open("/proc/uptime", "r")
    off=float(fd.read().split()[0])
    fd.close
    s = time.localtime(time.time() - off)
    bootdate = time.strftime("%x", s)
    boottime = time.strftime("%X", s)
    output = subprocess.Popen(["/sbin/ausearch", "-m", "AVC,USER_AVC,MAC_POLICY_LOAD,DAEMON_START,SELINUX_ERR", "-ts", bootdate, boottime],

Based on that, I'm inclined to believe this bz is a duplicate of Bug #1286633.

Comment 11 Steve Grubb 2016-04-29 17:30:56 UTC

audit-2.5.2-1.el7 has been built to address this issue

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 06:12:25 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2418.html