On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 10:18 -0700, brian retford wrote:
We have a fairly customized centos 5.3 distribution, but I know of
nothing that would cause the behavior I'm seeing. We don't use
iptables or ipsec, secmark is enabled in the kernel. I get avc denied
messages for packets that almost certainly do exist, but the targets
almost never make sense (at least to me), things like ls_exec_t,
lib_t, and other seemingly random types. Thoughts?
avc: denied { send } for pid=3202 comm="sshd" saddr=172.27.13.41
src=22 daddr=172.27.134.1 dest=40428 netif=eth0
scontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tclass=packet
If you haven't configured iptables to mark packets with those contexts,
then you shouldn't get any such denials.
So either you have a weird iptables configuration or you have a kernel
bug.
What kernel are you using?
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency