Issued:

2009-05-07

Updated:

2009-05-07

RHBA-2009:0475 - audit bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

audit bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated audit packages that fix a bug and add an enhancement are now available.

Description

The audit packages contain user-space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.

These updated audit packages fix the following bug:

• ausearch was unable to interpret tty audit records. tty records are specially-encoded, and the ausearch program could not decode them, which resulted in their being displayed in encoded form. These updated packages enable ausearch to interpret (i.e. decode correctly) TTY records, thus resolving the issue. (BZ#497518)

In addition, these updated audit packages provide the following enhancement:

• The aureport program was enhanced to add a '--tty' report option. This is a new report that was recently added to audit in order to aid in the review of TTY audit events. (BZ#497518)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated audit packages, which resolve this issue and add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.src.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• audispd-plugins-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm
• audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm
• audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm
• system-config-audit-0.4.8-7.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390.rpm
• audispd-plugins-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc64.rpm
• audispd-plugins-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• audispd-plugins-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc64.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• audispd-plugins-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm
• audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm
• system-config-audit-0.4.8-7.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.s390.rpm
• audit-libs-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
• system-config-audit-0.4.8-7.el5_3.3.s390x.rpm
• audit-libs-devel-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.ppc.rpm
• system-config-audit-0.4.8-7.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
• system-config-audit-0.4.8-7.el5_3.3.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 497518

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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