Bug 150474
| Summary: | Sendmail not allowed to access /dev/[u]random | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Richard Allen <ra> |
| Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | dwalsh, rcoker |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | u2 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-10-12 18:17:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.90 in FC3 has a fix for this. I will move to get this into U2. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: From /var/log/messages Mar 7 08:33:47 babylon5 kernel: audit(1110184427.714:0): avc: denied { read } for pid=1250 exe=/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail name=urandom dev=tmpfs ino=437 scontext=root:system_r:system_mail_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:urandom_device_t tclass=chr_file Mar 7 08:33:47 babylon5 kernel: audit(1110184427.714:0): avc: denied { read } for pid=1250 exe=/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail name=random dev=tmpfs ino=435scontext=root:system_r:system_mail_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t tclass=chr_file Im thinking this has to do with TLS. As we all know, good random numbers greatly enhance quality here so I think this should be fixed soon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run sendmail with SELinux enabled 2. See /var/log/messages Additional info: