Bug 214521

Summary: Cannot send mail with squirrelmail
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2006-11-07 22:44:02 UTC
Description of problem:

Squirrelmail reports:

Email delivery error
Server replied: 127 Can't execute command '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t
-forion.com'.

dmesg:
audit(1162938993.188:19): avc:  denied  { execute_no_trans } for  pid=4998
comm="httpd" name="bash" dev=dm-0 ino=92194 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t:s0 tclass=file

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-2.4.1-3.fc6


Finally ended up with the following module:

module squirrelmail 1.0.1;

require {
        class file { execute_no_trans read };
        type httpd_t;
        type shell_exec_t;
        role system_r;
};

allow httpd_t shell_exec_t:file { execute_no_trans read };

This allows sendmail to be executed, but still results in the following messages:

audit(1162939355.032:28): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=5119 comm="sh"
name="bash" dev=dm-0 ino=92194 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:shell_exec_t:s0 tclass=file
audit(1162939355.032:29): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=5119 comm="sendmail"
name="[19173]" dev=eventpollfs ino=19173 scontext=root:system_r:system_mail_t:s0
tcontext=root:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tclass=file

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2006-11-08 16:07:25 UTC
Please download the latest policy update selinux-policy-2.4.3-2.fc6

Which should fix the shell problem.  

I have no idea why sendmail is trying to look at httpd_t, does this cause a failure?

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2006-11-20 18:40:16 UTC
2.4.3-2.fc6 does fix the shell problem.  Still have:

avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=17546 comm="sendmail" name="[3522238]"
dev=eventpollfs ino=3522238 scontext=root:system_r:system_mail_t:s0
tcontext=root:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tclass=file

but it does not appear to cause any problems.  What the heck is dev=eventpollfs?

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2006-11-20 20:16:35 UTC
I have no idea what this is and since it is not causing a problem you could
probably dontaudit it.  Might be some buggy code?

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2007-08-22 14:13:08 UTC
Fixed in current release