Hello,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:36:43 PM EDT Ankitha Kundhuru wrote:
 I found a new word "per" in some of the records of my
audit.log.
 Any idea of why this happened  
The process personality is not normal. 
 and what it means ? 
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation/blob/master/specs/fields/
field-dictionary.csv#L176
You can use ausearch -i to decode it.
-Steve
 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1571245536.351:43593): arch=c000003e
syscall=3
 *per=40000* success=yes exit=0 a0=5 a1=5 a2=556213b6d6bc a3=7f483b98bcc0
 items=0 ppid=2653 pid=2655 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000
 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=pts1 ses=3 comm="gdb"
 exe="/usr/bin/gdb" key=(null)
 
 Thank you :)
 
 Thanks & Regards,
 Ankitha Kundhuru