Bug 246171

Summary:	selinux prevents vmware server console from running
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Charlie Colins <charles.e.collins>
Component:	selinux-policy-targeted	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Charlie Colins 2007-06-28 22:38:30 UTC

Description of problem:
selinux is preventing /lib/ld-2.6.so from making the program stack executable

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.6-3
selinux-policy-3.0.1-1.fc8

How reproducible:
every time I try to run vmware server console

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
vmware console server fails to run

Expected results:
expect vmware console server to run

Additional info:
selinux alert mentions changing the EXECSTACK flag on a library and indicates
that stack memory should "never ever" be executable.  Not sure I understand all
of this, because the vmware console server package did run before.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2007-06-29 07:49:09 UTC

glibc isn't involved here at all.
If vmware requires executable stack, it needs to be labeled appropriately.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2007-07-02 01:06:47 UTC

Allowing execstack and ewecmem for selinux-policy-3.0.1-4.fc8

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2007-08-22 14:16:47 UTC

Should be fixed in the current release

Comment 4 Charlie Brady 2011-08-10 16:00:30 UTC

I'm still seeing this with F14. Comment #2 doesn't include enough detail to determine what was done, and why it is not effective in F14 (the selinux alert concerns /lib/ld-2.13.so in F14). 

I guess this is a bug with vmware-server-console, and will never be fixed.

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2011-08-11 20:14:41 UTC

I am going to close as dup of another bug that explains how to look for execstack libraries.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652297 ***