Bug 2103947

Summary:	httpd_execmem required potentially unsafe
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Jeffrey <jeffrey>
Component:	lighttpd	Assignee:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
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Version:	epel9	CC:	gwync, matthias, rhbugs
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Description Jeffrey 2022-07-05 11:22:55 UTC

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lighttpd from using the execmem access on a process

Stopping these errors requires manually setting the httpd_execmem boolean to true. RHEL documentation explains that setting this boolean to true lowers protection from buffer overflows and is potentially unsafe.

Is this an lighttpd issue? Should this be patched upstream or downstream?

Comment 1 Gwyn Ciesla 2022-07-28 16:05:43 UTC

This is an SELinux policy issue. I believe it's been fixed in Fedora, and I'm not sure what the process is for getting that in EL-9.