Bug 1717345

Summary: SELinux is preventing pppd from using the 'dac_override' capabilities.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Berend De Schouwer <berend.de.schouwer>
Component: pppAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 30CC: dwalsh, jaskalnik, jskarvad, jsynacek, lvrabec, mgrepl, msekleta, plautrba, thozza, zpytela
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Description Berend De Schouwer 2019-06-05 09:47:44 UTC
Description of problem:
Activate a Fortigate VPN connection in NetworkManager

NM runs NetworkManager-fortisslvpn plugin
that runs openfortivpn
that runs pppd
SELinux is preventing pppd from using the 'dac_override' capabilities.

*****  Plugin dac_override (91.4 confidence) suggests   **********************

If you want to help identify if domain needs this access or you have a file with the wrong permissions on your system
Then turn on full auditing to get path information about the offending file and generate the error again.
Do

Turn on full auditing
# auditctl -w /etc/shadow -p w
Try to recreate AVC. Then execute
# ausearch -m avc -ts recent
If you see PATH record check ownership/permissions on file, and fix it,
otherwise report as a bugzilla.

*****  Plugin catchall (9.59 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that pppd should have the dac_override capability 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:
# ausearch -c 'pppd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-pppd
# semodule -X 300 -i my-pppd.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0
Target Objects                Unknown [ capability ]
Source                        pppd
Source Path                   pppd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.14.3-37.fc30.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Permissive
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 5.0.14-300.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu
                              May 9 10:43:38 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   2
First Seen                    2019-06-03 20:57:36 SAST
Last Seen                     2019-06-05 08:58:30 SAST
Local ID                      fa01448f-15a0-475d-9cbe-1fc6155ab273

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1559717910.804:6284): avc:  denied  { dac_override } for  pid=11356 comm="pppd" capability=1  scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tclass=capability permissive=1


Hash: pppd,pppd_t,pppd_t,capability,dac_override

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-37.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
component:      selinux-policy
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.14-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 2 Berend De Schouwer 2019-07-19 04:56:48 UTC
I've removed my local selinux policies to attempt to gather full auditing.  However, it doesn't trigger anymore.

How do I know if the policies were successfully removed?  Are the following commands a good way to remove local policies?  There's nothing left under 400/

# semodule -l | grep pppd|forti
# semodule -r my-pppd
# semodule -r my-fortivpn

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 21:32:05 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 16:13:28 UTC
Fedora 30 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-05-26. Fedora 30 is
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