Bug 1251996

Description of problem:

The current beta version of Google Chrome (45.0.2454.x from official repo) fails to load anything on up to date RHEL 7 as it wants to use setcap inside its SUID sandbox (to drop capabilities on a newly forked process). The change was introduced with [0] as a part of changes [1] that will result in deep separation of various browser components. Previously failure of setcap was not fatal, but with [2] the situation changed and now the process will crash and the sandbox initialization will fail.

[0] - https://codereview.chromium.org/1158793003
[1] - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460972
[2] - https://codereview.chromium.org/download/issue1158793003_60001_70004.diff

SELinux is preventing /opt/google/chrome-beta/chrome from using the setcap access on a process.

*****  Plugin chrome (98.5 confidence) suggests   ****************************

If you want to use the plugin package
Then you must turn off SELinux controls on the Chrome plugins.
Do
# setsebool -P unconfined_chrome_sandbox_transition 0

*****  Plugin catchall (2.46 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that chrome should be allowed setcap access on processes labeled chrome_sandbox_t by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep chrome /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c
                              0.c1023
Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c
                              0.c1023
Target Objects                Unknown [ process ]
Source                        chrome
Source Path                   /opt/google/chrome-beta/chrome
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          rhel7.0
Source RPM Packages           google-chrome-beta-45.0.2454.26-1.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-23.el7_1.13.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     rhel7.0
Platform                      Linux rhel7.0 3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              Wed Jul 22 12:06:11 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   25
First Seen                    2015-08-10 14:09:02 CEST
Last Seen                     2015-08-10 14:11:24 CEST
Local ID                      ca4a2a28-46c8-4354-aa80-bd7dbe3d4d28

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1439208684.64:281): avc:  denied  { setcap } for  pid=17407 comm="chrome" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1439208684.64:281): arch=x86_64 syscall=capset success=no exit=EACCES a0=7ffe979cd938 a1=7ffe979cd920 a2=7ffe979cd920 a3=7f09b0b22270 items=0 ppid=17246 pid=17407 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm=chrome exe=/opt/google/chrome-beta/chrome subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: chrome,chrome_sandbox_t,chrome_sandbox_t,process,setcap