Bug 284561

Summary:	Security enhancements for memcached
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon>
Component:	memcached	Assignee:	Paul Lindner <lindner>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7	CC:	matthias, ruben
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Fixed In Version:	1.2.4-2.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Konstantin Ryabitsev 2007-09-10 13:33:51 UTC

I have enhanced the package to incorporate the following additional security
measures:

1. Do not run as user nobody (duplicate of #253882, but it was never actually
applied to devel, so I enhanced it slightly).
2. Provide selinux policies for memcached.

You can find all of the modified/new files here:

http://icon.fedorapeople.org/f/memcached/

I'd like to see this in the official package.

Comment 1 Matthias Saou 2007-09-12 11:40:15 UTC

Maybe silly questions, but :
- Why have the selinux stuff in a separate package?
- Why include the selinux stuff here instead of asking to have it included
  in the default system policy?

Just curious :-)

Comment 2 Paul Lindner 2007-12-22 13:14:32 UTC

I just reviewed the SELinux build policy at 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules

and this looks to be the correct implementation.

I've applied this patch and it goes into memcached-1.2.4-2

regards

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-12-28 17:19:56 UTC

memcached-1.2.4-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update memcached'

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:34:17 UTC

memcached-1.2.4-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:48:46 UTC

memcached-1.2.4-2.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update memcached'