[PATCH] Don't crash on unknown S_IFMT file modes

Miloslav Trmac mitr at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 12:06:12 UTC 2009


Hello,
ausearch -i and libauparse currently crash (access NULL) if a mode= field contains an unknown file type.  Such records are generated by the kernel for IPC, e.g.

    node=jcdx156 type=IPC msg=audit(1237915952.720:2294): ouid=500 ogid=1106 mode=0600 obj=siterep_u:siterep_r:siterep_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023

The attached patch:
* Modifies ausearch and libauparse to output the file format in octal if it is unknown.
* Modifies libauparse to use the same interpreted field format as ausearch (without a space in the middle).
* Modifies comma handling in libauparse to avoid a strcat() call.

    Mirek




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