Comment 1 for bug 878155

This brings us in line with the Debian cron package, which links against libaudit. I was surprised to see that libaudit wasn't already in main.

No major bugs on the package in Debian or in Ubuntu.

One secunia advisory for the package, from 2008.
  http://secunia.com/advisories/29617/

The auditd binary package runs a privileged daemon that talks to other local processes to provide an auditing service.