diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 1263569e52ce..1eed27e00a54 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ in
   atuin = runTest ./atuin.nix;
   audiobookshelf = runTest ./audiobookshelf.nix;
   audit = runTest ./audit.nix;
+  audit-testsuite = runTest ./audit-testsuite.nix;
   auth-mysql = runTest ./auth-mysql.nix;
   authelia = runTest ./authelia.nix;
   auto-cpufreq = runTest ./auto-cpufreq.nix;
diff --git a/nixos/tests/audit-testsuite.nix b/nixos/tests/audit-testsuite.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c45de00544f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/audit-testsuite.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{ lib, ... }:
+{
+  # https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite
+  # This test is meant to *only* run the audit regression testsuite.
+  # The test mutates the audit rules on the system it runs on, and can not run in the nix build sandbox.
+  # Thus a dedicated VM test makes sense.
+
+  name = "audit-testsuite";
+
+  meta = {
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ grimmauld ];
+  };
+
+  nodes.machine =
+    { pkgs, ... }:
+    {
+      # https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/blob/5a10451642ac1ba2fa4b31c06a21cf9aa2d38b66/tests/amcast_joinpart/test#L86
+      # tests use LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 to force ISO 8601 date format
+      i18n.extraLocales = [ "en_DK.UTF-8/UTF-8" ];
+
+      security.polkit.enable = true; # needed for run0
+
+      security.audit.backlogLimit = 8192;
+
+      security.auditd = {
+        enable = true;
+        plugins.af_unix.active = true;
+        settings = {
+          num_logs = 4;
+          disk_full_action = "rotate";
+        };
+      };
+
+      environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.audit.testsuite.runner ];
+    };
+
+  testScript = ''
+    start_all()
+    machine.wait_for_unit("auditd.service")
+    machine.wait_for_unit("network.target") # netfilter test requires network to be up
+
+    # we need a valid session to which we can send commands, so we use run0
+    machine.succeed("run0 --pty audit-testsuite-runner")
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/package.nix
index dbb8cd25ea56..197df3501597 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/package.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   nixosTests,
   pkgsStatic ? { }, # CI has allowVariants = false, in which case pkgsMusl would not be passed. So, instead add a default here.
   pkgsMusl ? { },
+  callPackage,
 }:
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "audit";
@@ -151,11 +152,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   passthru = {
     updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+    testsuite = callPackage ./testsuite.nix { };
     tests = {
       musl = pkgsMusl.audit or null;
       static = pkgsStatic.audit or null;
       pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
-      audit = nixosTests.audit;
+      inherit (nixosTests) audit audit-testsuite;
       # Broken on a hardened kernel
       package = finalAttrs.finalPackage.overrideAttrs (previousAttrs: {
         pname = previousAttrs.pname + "-test";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/testsuite.nix b/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/testsuite.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1acf9bbb523f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/au/audit/testsuite.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  fetchpatch,
+  unstableGitUpdater,
+  audit,
+  liburing,
+  nmap,
+  psmisc,
+  glibc,
+  perlPackages,
+  makeWrapper,
+  iptables,
+  coreutils,
+  writeShellApplication,
+  systemd,
+  iproute2,
+  inetutils,
+}:
+let
+  perlEnv =
+    with perlPackages;
+    makeFullPerlPath [
+      FileWhich
+      TestMockTimeHiRes
+      SocketNetlink
+    ];
+  testEnv = lib.makeBinPath [
+    iptables
+    iproute2 # ip
+    inetutils # ping6
+  ];
+
+  # syscall_socketcall: 32-bit tests are pain to build
+  # filter_exclude: relies on SELinux being enabled (`id -Z`)
+  # field_compare: weirdly flaky
+  disabledTests = [
+    "syscall_socketcall"
+    "filter_exclude"
+    "field_compare"
+  ];
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "audit-testsuite";
+  version = "0-unstable-2025-08-30";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "linux-audit";
+    repo = "audit-testsuite";
+    rev = "25296c6623e95312437a58f76bb771ba31187bed";
+    hash = "sha256-DeKcNOJVGhLSm7ZHYa6bOG2oSsbs3SH5UCLrbqzy+m4=";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    # https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/pull/125
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://github.com/tweag/audit-testsuite/commit/bd3f8b612ce3290d86a82170e69ac510818d52e3.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-rsSQ9uTjTEnDnB1Wlt2/Of2HmS+ajCIX7Iw/FRA4Fng=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace tests/Makefile ${
+      lib.concatMapStringsSep " " (t: "--replace-fail '${t}' ''") disabledTests
+    }
+  '';
+
+  passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater { };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    perlPackages.perl
+    liburing
+    audit
+    nmap
+    psmisc
+    glibc
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    makeWrapper
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = false; # Can't run checks in the build sandbox, these checks are meant to run in a full VM
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    mkdir -p $out
+    pushd tests
+    find . -type f -executable -exec install -Dm755 "{}" $out/"{}" \;
+    popd
+
+    rm -rf $out/{${lib.concatMapStringsSep "," lib.escapeShellArg disabledTests}}
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  # adapted from tests/Makefile
+  fixupPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs $out/runtests.pl
+    wrapProgram $out/runtests.pl \
+      --set PERL5LIB ${perlEnv} \
+      --set MODE ${toString stdenv.hostPlatform.parsed.cpu.bits} \
+      --set ATS_DEBUG 1 \
+      --set DISTRO nixos \
+      --set TESTS "$(find $out -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n' | sort | paste -sd' ')" \
+      --prefix PATH : ${testEnv}
+  '';
+
+  passthru.runner = writeShellApplication {
+    name = "audit-testsuite-runner";
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      coreutils
+      systemd
+    ];
+    text = ''
+      # log to journal for easier introspection in a VM test
+      exec &> >(tee >(systemd-cat -t audit-testsuite))
+      testdir=$(mktemp -d)
+      export testdir
+      # test directory needs to be writable
+      cp -r ${finalAttrs.finalPackage}/* "$testdir"
+      cd "$testdir"
+      chmod +w -R .
+
+      # exec_name test expects coreutils to be actual binaries in an absolute real path,
+      # no symlinks to /nix/store/<hash>-coreutils/bin/coreutils
+      # fix: copy coreutils to a temporary path where the actual binary can exist under that name
+      # https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/blob/5a10451642ac1ba2fa4b31c06a21cf9aa2d38b66/tests/exec_name/test#L28-L47
+      mkdir coreutils
+      for util in id echo ls ; do
+        cp "$(realpath "$(which "$util")")" coreutils/"$util"
+      done
+      sed -iE "s@/usr/bin/@$(pwd)/coreutils/@g" exec_name/test
+
+      exec ./runtests.pl
+    '';
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A simple, self-contained regression test suite for the Linux Kernel's audit subsystem";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ grimmauld ];
+    mainProgram = "audit-testsuite";
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 087c80b1bff1..66e94648bc2a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -12628,6 +12628,23 @@ with self;
     };
   };
 
+  ExtUtilsH2PM = buildPerlPackage {
+    pname = "ExtUtils-H2PM";
+    version = "0.11";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PE/PEVANS/ExtUtils-H2PM-0.11.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-RrSuyafSxXSSVtCdz3ukwtAM3dQRAUgkme2Ix2bp6No=";
+    };
+    buildInputs = [ ModuleBuild ];
+    meta = {
+      description = "Automatically generate perl modules to wrap C header files";
+      license = with lib.licenses; [
+        artistic1
+        gpl1Plus
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+
   ExtUtilsInstall = buildPerlPackage {
     pname = "ExtUtils-Install";
     version = "2.22";
@@ -30824,6 +30841,28 @@ with self;
     };
   };
 
+  SocketNetlink = buildPerlPackage {
+    pname = "Socket-Netlink";
+    version = "0.05";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PE/PEVANS/Socket-Netlink-0.05.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-2EfbWbFI0I1A/gndoswlfvcvsetaDWgVX77csfWF2L0=";
+    };
+    buildInputs = [
+      ExtUtilsCChecker
+      ExtUtilsH2PM
+      TestHexString
+      ModuleBuild
+    ];
+    meta = {
+      description = "Interface to Linux's C<PF_NETLINK> socket family";
+      license = with lib.licenses; [
+        artistic1
+        gpl1Plus
+      ];
+    };
+  };
+
   SoftwareLicense = buildPerlPackage {
     pname = "Software-License";
     version = "0.104004";