[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#823477: chromium: Chromium generates many kernel audit messages

[Jerry Quinn]

Package: chromium
Version: 50.0.2661.94-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

chromium generates many security messages in the kernel log, like 1
per second whenever chromium is rurnning.  The following is an example:

May  4 23:22:57 cerberus kernel: [410461.001883] audit: type=1326
audit(1462418577.785:303305): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1
pid=2191 comm="chromium" exe="/usr/lib/chromium/chromium" sig=0
arch=c000003e syscall=2 compat=0 ip=0x7fe56e79ef5f code=0x50000




-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.20.0-1
ii  libavcodec57         7:3.0.1-3
ii  libavformat57        7:3.0.1-3
ii  libavutil55          7:3.0.1-3
ii  libc6                2.22-7
ii  libcairo2            1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libcups2             2.1.3-5
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.8-1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.1-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6         2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1              1:5.3.1-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.48.0-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.30-1.1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.4.2-2
ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3              2:3.23-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.1-1
ii  libpci3              1:3.3.1-1.1
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-7+b1
ii  libstdc++6           5.3.1-14
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.6-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2.1
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.1-1

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.4-1

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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