Bug 1039879

Summary: nm-dispatcher.action runs as initrc_t
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0   
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.12.1-109.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:17:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Milos Malik 2013-12-10 08:56:31 UTC
Description of problem:
 * nm-dispatcher.action uses too powerful SELinux domain

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.9.9.0-27.git20131108.el7.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.9.9.0-27.git20131108.el7.x86_64
NetworkManager-openswan-0.9.8.0-1.el7.x86_64
selinux-policy-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-devel-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-doc-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-minimum-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-mls-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.12.1-108.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# service NetworkManager-dispatcher status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service - Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Dec 10 09:45:14 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Scri....
Dec 10 09:45:14 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Scrip....
Dec 10 09:45:14 rhel70.localdomain logger[1199]: dnssec-trigger-hook(network...g
Dec 10 09:45:14 rhel70.localdomain logger[1201]: dnssec-trigger-hook(network...g
Dec 10 09:47:52 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Scri....
Dec 10 09:47:52 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Scrip....
Dec 10 09:49:00 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Network Manager Scri....
Dec 10 09:49:00 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Scrip....
Dec 10 09:49:11 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager Scrip....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
# service NetworkManager-dispatcher start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
# service NetworkManager-dispatcher status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service - Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2013-12-10 09:53:09 CET; 993ms ago
 Main PID: 2662 (nm-dispatcher.a)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
           └─2662 /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action

Dec 10 09:53:09 rhel70.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Network Manager Scrip....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
# ps -efZ | grep -e initrc_t -e init_t
system_u:system_r:init_t:s0     root         1     0  0 09:44 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 23
system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0   root      2662     1  0 09:53 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 root 2675 2575  0 09:53 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -e initrc_t -e init_t
#

Actual results:
 * nm-dispatcher.action runs as initrc_t

Expected results:
 * nm-dispatcher.action runs as NetworkManager_t

Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2013-12-10 12:01:54 UTC
Good catch. This is because of

ExecStart=/usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2013-12-10 12:04:07 UTC
commit 06750edfe38b27ba61cd099a8c5fd16c52456cb0
Author: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Date:   Tue Dec 10 13:02:45 2013 +0100

    Change labeling for /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action to NetworkManager_exec_t

Comment 5 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:17:53 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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