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Bug 452390

Summary: PATH and EXECVE audit records contain bogus newlines
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 4.6CC: lwang, riek, rkhan
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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: 479412 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-05-18 19:19:51 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 461297, 479412    
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Patch to remove bogus newlines in PATH and EXECVE records none

Description Matthew Booth 2008-06-21 22:15:46 UTC 
Description of problem:
PATH records, as output by the kernel, contain a newline after the flags fields,
which is in the middle of the record.

EXECVE records contain a newline after every argument.

auditd seems to hide this, but they're there nevertheless. If you're not using
auditd, you need to work round them.

I've attached a patch which I think would fix them. However, I'm not able to
test the patch *at all* right now (even for compilation).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL
Comment 1 Matthew Booth 2008-06-21 22:15:46 UTC 
Created attachment 309983 [details]
Patch to remove bogus newlines in PATH and EXECVE records
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-03 13:02:36 UTC 
Updating PM score.
Comment 3 Vivek Goyal 2009-01-14 14:23:05 UTC 
Committed in 78.28.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 19:19:51 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html