selinux July 2014

selinux@lists.fedoraproject.org

10 participants
9 discussions

sandbox -X broken on FC20?
by Robert Horovitz 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

Hi, I'm using firefox in a sandbox. It doesn't work anymore since today: sandbox -X -t sandbox_web_t firefox Failed to execute command /usr/share/sandbox/sandboxX.sh: Operation not permitted My installed versions: policycoreutils-sandbox-2.2.5-3.fc20.x86_64 selinux-policy-targeted-3.12.1-153.fc20.noarch libselinux-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64 libselinux-python-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64 libselinux-utils-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64 selinux-policy-3.12.1-153.fc20.noarch Anyone having the same problem? Or a fix? thanks! Robert

4 8

libcap-ng 0.7.4-1 reached F19 -> now sandboxes are also broken in F19
by Robert Horovitz 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Why is libcap-ng not postponed until #1103622 is fixed? (which probably won't be tomorrow) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103622 http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/ChangeLog

2 2

SELinux Development yum group proposal
by Lukas Zapletal 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hello, I think for newcomers it is sometimes difficult to find the packages to install if they want to use some tools. The relevant packages are AFAIK: selinux-policy, audit, libselinux-utils, setools, setools-console, policycoreutils-python, setroubleshoot and maybe few others. The most confusing is in my humble opinion semanage tool which is present in policycoreutils-python. With image deployment which is popular in infrastructure clouds, administrators need to deal with minimum OS installs very often and some tools are usually missing in RHEL/Fedora. And they are not finding them. Thus I propose to create new yum group SELinux Development that would help installing these tools all in once. And then spreading the word. What folks think about this? -- Later, Lukas "lzap" Zapletal

3 3

directory fcontext
by mark 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

What should be the fcontext for a directory that contains cgi (or, in this case, ruby gems)? mark

3 3

selinux, httpd, and lighttpd
by Gene Czarcinski 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Generally I am a "belt and suspenders" type of guy with respect to security so for a webserver (apache(httpd), lighttpd, or nginx) I want to run the server chrooted AS WELL AS have SELinux enforcing in effect. I have been running SELinux enabled and enforcing from the beginning so it is not a question of using SELinux. Well, I am not doing to well and really cannot get things to work. Without chroot but with SELinux enforcing, I can get lighttpd to serve static files and CPI created info (specifically to support git clone and gitweb). With chroot and SELInux enforcing I can get static files served but *not* CGI stuff ... I get lots of "CGI failed: Permission denied cgi-bin/git-http-backend" A bunch of years ago when I was using the bind package for dns, there was a change in Fedora/RHEL to de-emphasize use of chroot and instead depend on SELinux to protect things. This change was not so much advertised and just done. I am wondering if something similar has happened for the webserver. There is some (very limited) doc for apache (httpd) and a lot of rules in selinux-policy-targetted for "httpd" and these rules seem to apply to both httpd (apache) and lighttpd. If I am reading the tea leaves correctly SELinux seems to be providing a lot of protection. So, do I need chroot??? Is just using SELinux a "good enough" solution? I am not looking for a perfect solution but one which "good engineering practice" says should be "good enough." I hope it is but would sure like some "experts" to agree as well as maybe pointing to some substantiating documentation. Side comment: If SELinux is attempting to provide the same functionality to both httpd and lighttpd, it would be nice if the documentation at least mentioned lighttpd. Gene

2 1

SELinux blocks apachectl from stopping apache
by Konopka.Andre 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hi list, I use a self compiled apache-2.2.27 on a CentOS6.5 box I run into trouble with the apachectl command. If I try stop apache with 'apachectl stop' it complains: (13)Permission denied: Error retrieving pid file run/httpd.pid Remove it before continuing if it is corrupted. Audit logs shows the problem: type=AVC msg=audit(1404897126.819:7069): avc: denied { read } for pid=23031 comm="httpd" name="httpd.pid" dev=dm-0 ino=529958 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1404897126.819:7069): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=7ff99e37eff0 a1=80000 a2=1b6 a3=1 items=0 ppid=23029 pid=23031 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd" subj=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null) BTW Stopping apache with 'httpd -k stop' works fine. [root@centos1 conf]# ls -lZ /usr/sbin/apachectl -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:initrc_exec_t:s0 /usr/sbin/apachectl [root@centos1 conf]# [root@centos1 conf]# ls -lZ /usr/sbin/httpd -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_exec_t:s0 /usr/sbin/httpd [root@centos1 conf]# [root@centos1 audit]# ps -efZ | grep -i apachectl unconfined_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 root 23066 2412 0 11:20 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/apachectl [root@centos1 audit]# ls -lZ httpd.pid -rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 httpd.pid How can I fix it?

3 3

ANN: selinux-policy.git on fedorahosted moved to GitHub
by Miroslav Grepl 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

The repository can be checked out using the following: $ git clonehttps://github.com/selinux-policy/selinux-policy.git Or if you already have the repository checked out, you can change to the new location via: $ git set-url originhttps://github.com/selinux-policy/selinux-policy.git Also feel free to help us and create a pull request for your changes. Regards, Miroslav

1 0

Weird un-audited denial on tmp_t
by David Cafaro 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Sorry, I know this isn't fedora (CentOS 5 actually) but I believe this may be a more generic situation. I recently was trying to troubleshoot an issue where a process spawned off under the dovecot_t process type and needed to create files under /tmp (tmp_t). This wasn't obvious as there where no denial messages in audit for tmp_t. Even using "semodule -DB" didn't show denial messages. All I knew was the process was trying to read/write files and was getting access denied. I just didn't know where or why. Eventually an strace on the process tree showed the access attempt to /tmp. Since I knew policy would be required to create tmp types I went ahead and added tmp file transitions and appropriate supporting permissions around the new dovecot_tmp_t type. This fixed the problem. What is surprising to me is that there were no denial messages related to tmp_t or dovecot_t. Nothing, regardless of permissive vs enforcing, or semodule -DB set. Any clue as to why this wouldn't trigger a log message? This is a strict, not targeted policy, yes I know very old school. Thanks, David

1 0

semanage boolean fails
by Shintaro Fujiwara 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

Hi, I try to set boolean on but fails. [root@xxxx]# semanage boolean -m httpd_can_network_connect_db --on Killed Why? -- 日本にヘヴィメタル・ハードロックを根付かせるページ http://heavymetalhardrock.no-ip.info/ 世界中でセキュアＯＳのSELinuxを使いやすくするフリーソフト http://sourceforge.net/projects/segatex/ CMS（PHPとPostgreSQLを使ったフリーソフト） http://sourceforge.net/projects/webon/ https://github.com/intrajp/irforum_jp

2 2

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

selinux July 2014