setuids(8)

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NAME

6       setuids.bt - Trace setuid family of syscalls. Uses bpftrace/eBPF.
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SYNOPSIS

9       setuids.bt
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DESCRIPTION

12       This  tool  traces privilege escalation via setuid syscalls, and can be
13       used for debugging, whitelist creation, and intrusion detection.
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15       It works  by  tracing  the  setuid(2),  setfsuid(2),  and  retresuid(2)
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18       Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
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REQUIREMENTS

21       CONFIG_BPF and bpftrace.
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EXAMPLES

24       Trace setuid syscalls:
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FIELDS

28       PID    The calling process ID.
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30       COMM   The calling process (thread) name.
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32       UID    The UID of the caller.
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34       SYSCALL
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37       ARGS   The arguments to the syscall
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39       (RET)  The  return  value  for the syscall: 0 == success, other numbers
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OVERHEAD

43       setuid calls are expected to be low frequency (<< 100/s), so the  over‐
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SOURCE

47       This  tool  originated from the book "BPF Performance Tools", published
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50              http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html
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52       See the book for more documentation on this tool.
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54       This version is in the bpftrace repository:
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56              https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace
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58       Also look in the bpftrace distribution for  a  companion  _examples.txt
59       file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
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OS

62       Linux
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STABILITY

65       Unstable - in development.
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AUTHOR

68       Brendan Gregg
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