Bug 227002

Summary: Firefox/Evolution crash when printing under SELinux/strict/enforcing
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ted Rule <ejtr>
Component: selinux-policy-strictAssignee: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Ted Rule 2007-02-02 16:07:23 UTC 
Description of problem:

Firefox-2 and Evolution crash when printing is invoked under strict SELinux
poliy [ It is presumed that Firefox-1.5 also crashes, and that the same
problem exists for targeted policy ]

The problem is that both Firefox and Evolution need access to /dev/random -
presumably so as to build a temporary print spool file name. Default policy
allows access to /dev/urandom, but not /dev/random.

A simple workround is to add

dev_read_rand($1_evolution_t) 

  and 

dev_read_rand($1_mozilla_t) 

to evolution.if and mozilla.if respectively.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

selinux-policy-strict-2.4.6-27


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Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-02-05 20:28:18 UTC 
Fixed in  selinux-policy-2.4.6-36
Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2007-08-22 14:13:02 UTC 
Fixed in current release