Bug 2160994

Summary: SELinux is preventing gdb from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Crawford <jrefl5>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Zdenek Pytela <zpytela>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 37CC: dwalsh, lvrabec, mmalik, omosnacek, pkoncity, vmojzis, zpytela
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Description James Crawford 2023-01-15 01:36:29 UTC
Description of problem:
Triggered by crash of Wesnoth game
SELinux is preventing gdb from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that gdb should have the sys_admin 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 'gdb' --raw | audit2allow -M my-gdb
# semodule -X 300 -i my-gdb.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:abrt_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:system_r:abrt_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Objects                Unknown [ capability ]
Source                        gdb
Source Path                   gdb
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
SELinux Policy RPM            selinux-policy-targeted-37.17-1.fc37.noarch
Local Policy RPM              selinux-policy-targeted-37.17-1.fc37.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 6.0.18-300.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jan 7 17:10:00 UTC 2023 x86_64
                              x86_64
Alert Count                   2
First Seen                    2023-01-14 18:26:17 MST
Last Seen                     2023-01-14 18:26:17 MST
Local ID                      59a920c2-28df-42e2-9a65-c8848c5a4f36

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1673745977.202:501): avc:  denied  { sys_admin } for  pid=4778 comm="gdb" capability=21  scontext=system_u:system_r:abrt_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:abrt_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability permissive=0


Hash: gdb,abrt_t,abrt_t,capability,sys_admin

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-targeted-37.17-1.fc37.noarch

Additional info:
component:      selinux-policy
reporter:       libreport-2.17.4
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         6.0.18-300.fc37.x86_64
type:           libreport

Potential duplicate: bug 1897863

Comment 1 Zdenek Pytela 2023-01-16 11:04:02 UTC
It is required to turn this boolean on to allow abrt execute its gdb handler and be able to troubleshoot further:

  # setsebool -P abrt_handle_event on

and subsequently report another bug for the affected component.

Refer to abrt_handle_event_selinux(8) for more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1897863 ***