Bug 290561

Summary: firefox execstack
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <lsof>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Need Real Name 2007-09-14 09:09:26 UTC
Couldn't find this in bugzilla:

avc: denied { execstack } for comm="firefox-bin" egid=500 euid=500
exe="/usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/firefox-bin" exit=-13 fsgid=500 fsuid=500 gid=500
items=0 pid=3735 scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 sgid=500
subj=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 suid=500 tclass=process
tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=500

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-09-14 14:05:11 UTC
This might be a bug in a plugin/extension that you have installed.

You can turn on allow_execstack boolean if this is causing firefox to not work.

setsebool -P allow_execstack=1

Comment 2 Zack Cerza 2008-01-25 23:34:26 UTC
I saw this recently in rawhide, and it turned out to be Adobe's Flash plugin
that was marked as requiring execstack. I googled for a bit and found this page:

http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/10/flash-goes-mp4-aac-h264-mpeg4-avc.html

which has a comment stating that the marking of libflashplayer.so as needing
execstack was a mistake. I un-marked it via "execstack -c
/path/to/libflashplayer.so" and I'm no longer getting the avc, and flash appears
to work fine in enforcing mode.

Does that work for you?

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2008-01-26 11:26:47 UTC
I don't have the problem (on F8) any more..

Comment 4 Zack Cerza 2008-01-28 15:27:47 UTC
So easy it's almost too good to be true :)