Bug 283051

Summary: libtheora selinux text relocation error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul Jenner <psj>
Component: libtheoraAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Paul Jenner 2007-09-07 19:49:40 UTC 
Description of problem:

totem fails to load theora gstreamer plugin with libtheora selinux text
relocation error.

[psj@localhost]$ totem --gst-debug-level=1
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/rms-talk.ogg

(totem:11256): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin
'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttheora.so': /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0: cannot
restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

sealert shows:

SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/totem from loading /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.2.0
which requires text relocation.

eu-findtextrel gives:

[psj@localhost CVS]$ eu-findtextrel /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.2.0
either the file containing the function 'theora_decode_header' or the file
containing the function 'theora_encode_header' is not compiled with -fpic/-fPIC

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

[psj@localhost]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0.2.0 
libtheora-1.0alpha8-0.1.svn13393.fc7

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. totem --gst-debug-level=1 http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/files/rms-talk.ogg
  
Actual results:

Fails to load plugin with error:

(totem:11256): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin
'/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgsttheora.so': /usr/lib/libtheora.so.0: cannot
restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

and associated selinux audit error

Expected results:

Should load plugin and play

Additional info:
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-09-07 22:02:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253591 ***