need help interpreting ausearch results

[Peter Moody]

What's the actual rule? On my system, syscall 88 is either symlink (64 bit) or reboot (32 bit).

On Sat, Dec 21 2013 at 04:48, Stefano Schiavi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could anyone help with this? I really don't know where else to ask.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Stefano
>
>
> On 12/15/13, 12:19 AM, Stefano Schiavi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you Steve and all for keeping up the great work here.
>>
>> Some time ago I setup some audit rules to monitor what would change the permissions of the
>> public_html directory since we found that once in a while it would change to 777 out of the
>> blue.
>>
>> It happened again yesterday and I believe these parts of the log represent when the issue
>> happened:
>>
>> type=PATH msg=audit(1386933561.795:7958476): item=2 name="./www" inode=4980752 dev=08:08
>> mode=0120777 ouid=501 ogid=501 rdev=00:00
>> type=PATH msg=audit(1386933561.795:7958476): item=1 name="./" inode=4980737 dev=08:08
>> mode=040711 ouid=501 ogid=501 rdev=00:00
>> type=PATH msg=audit(1386933561.795:7958476): item=0 name="public_html"
>> type=CWD msg=audit(1386933561.795:7958476):  cwd="/home/lanogbar"
>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1386933561.795:7958476): arch=c000003e syscall=88 success=yes exit=0
>> a0=1306d160 a1=1306d200 a2=11 a3=0 items=3 ppid=18728 pid=18731 auid=0 uid=501 gid=501
>> euid=501 suid=501 fsuid=501 egid=501 sgid=501 fsgid=501 tty=(none) ses=117304 comm="gtar"
>> exe="/bin/tar" key="lanogbar-www"
>>
>>
>> This is just a guess though and I can not be sure as I have no experience parsing the
>> logs. Looking through with the I flag we can see the following::
>>
>> type=PATH msg=audit(12/13/2013 15:00:03.759:7970202) : item=0
>> name=/home/lanogbar/public_html/ inode=4980744 dev=08:08 mode=dir,750 ouid=lanogbar
>> ogid=nobody rdev=00:00
>> type=CWD msg=audit(12/13/2013 15:00:03.759:7970202) : cwd=/home/lanogbar/public_html
>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(12/13/2013 15:00:03.759:7970202) : arch=x86_64 syscall=chmod
>> success=yes exit=0 a0=1585e520 a1=1ff a2=2f a3=146c1d40 items=1 ppid=27717 pid=8804 auid=root
>> uid=lanogbar gid=lanogbar euid=lanogbar suid=lanogbar fsuid=lanogbar egid=lanogbar
>> sgid=lanogbar fsgid=lanogbar tty=(none) ses=117304 comm=php exe=/usr/bin/php
>> key=lanogbar-public_html
>>
>> Do you think this is relevant?
>> If so it would seem a php script was responsible.
>>
>> Would you have any suggestion on how to identify the script?
>>
>> Thank you very much for the very valuable help.
>> Kind regards,
>> Stefano
>
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