From b3fb3c01eeedd1995c74dbe30fe33f189bc828e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Tierney <gary.tierney@gmx.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 21:05:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] audit-fd: check for CAP_AUDIT_WRITE before opening an audit
 socket

Adds a check to audit-fd.c to ensure that CAP_AUDIT_WRITE is present in
the set of effective capabilities before opening an audit netlink
socket.  This ensures that unprivileged systemd instances (MANAGER_USER)
don't try to log AVC permission checks with the audit subsystem when
CAP_AUDIT_WRITE is not present.
---
 src/core/audit-fd.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/core/audit-fd.c b/src/core/audit-fd.c
index 76afe3fe15a..a91906b626d 100644
--- a/src/core/audit-fd.c
+++ b/src/core/audit-fd.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <libaudit.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
 
+#include "capability-util.h"
 #include "fd-util.h"
 #include "log.h"
 #include "util.h"
@@ -37,6 +38,13 @@ static int audit_fd;
 int get_audit_fd(void) {
 
         if (!initialized) {
+                if (have_effective_cap(CAP_AUDIT_WRITE) == 0) {
+                        audit_fd = -EPERM;
+                        initialized = true;
+
+                        return audit_fd;
+                }
+
                 audit_fd = audit_open();
 
                 if (audit_fd < 0) {