From Dan Walsh in a private email: Analyzing this file shows no alerts? audit(1197531599.198:3): avc: denied { execute } for pid=2580 comm="sh" name="modprobe" dev=md127 ino=1759242 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:insmod_exec_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.198:4): avc: denied { read } for pid=2580 comm="sh" name="modprobe" dev=md127 ino=1759242 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:insmod_exec_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.198:5): avc: denied { execute_no_trans } for pid=2580 comm="sh" path="/sbin/modprobe" dev=md127 ino=1759242 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:insmod_exec_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.198:6): avc: denied { read } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" name="modprobe.conf" dev=md127 ino=201730 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_conf_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.198:7): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" path="/etc/modprobe.conf" dev=md127 ino=201730 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_conf_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.199:8): avc: denied { search } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" name="modules" dev=md127 ino=881665 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0 tclass=dir audit(1197531599.199:9): avc: denied { read } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" name="modules.dep" dev=md127 ino=897066 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_dep_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.199:10): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" path="/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-63.fc8/modules.dep" dev=md127 ino=897066 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_dep_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.201:11): avc: denied { read write } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" name="atm.ko" dev=md127 ino=901426 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0 tclass=file audit(1197531599.201:12): avc: denied { lock } for pid=2580 comm="modprobe" path="/lib/modules/2.6.23.8-63.fc8/kernel/net/atm/atm.ko" dev=md127 ino=901426 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_object_t:s0 tclass=file
Created attachment 290810 [details] valid input
The problem was the audit records were not well formed audit messages, they were missing the audit record type (e.g. they should all have begun with type=AVC). An audit record MUST specify it's type, if the record type is not present we ignore it because we don't know how to interpret the audit record. I've attached a file showing what the data should have looked like. It scans properly. How did you get this textural data? If it's coming from some place we expect to be able to parse we may to special case some logic or fix what is generating it, but otherwise my inclination is that's it's bad input and the lines were properly ignored.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.