Bug 433092

Summary: SELinux and groupadd/groudel
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Josef Kubin <jkubin>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2008-02-16 06:16:40 UTC
The alert is for groupadd, but groupdel does the same. It occurs when I use sudo
to install or remove a package that uses those commands. I have not verified if
it happens if done without sudo.


Summary
    SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/groupadd (groupadd_t) "search" to /
    (home_root_t).

Detailed Description
    SELinux denied access requested by /usr/sbin/groupadd. It is not expected
    that this access is required by /usr/sbin/groupadd and this access may
    signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version
    or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional
    access.

Allowing Access
    Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials.  You could try to
    restore the default system file context for /, restorecon -v / If this does
    not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this access. Instead,
    you can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see
    http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385 Or you can disable
    SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not
    recommended. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
    against this package.

Additional Information        

Source Context                user_u:system_r:groupadd_t
Target Context                system_u:object_r:home_root_t
Target Objects                / [ dir ]
Affected RPM Packages         shadow-utils-4.0.18.1-15.fc7
                              [application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target]
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-2.6.4-70.fc7
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   plugins.catchall_file
Host Name                     ignacio.ignacio.lan
Platform                      Linux ignacio.ignacio.lan 2.6.23.14-64.fc7 #1 SMP
                              Sun Jan 20 23:54:08 EST 2008 i686 athlon
Alert Count                   6
First Seen                    Sat 16 Feb 2008 01:12:05 AM EST
Last Seen                     Sat 16 Feb 2008 01:12:06 AM EST
Local ID                      197d2875-0baf-4b9f-b60c-24eb848d9198
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

avc: denied { search } for comm="groupadd" dev=dm-1 egid=0 euid=0
exe="/usr/sbin/groupadd" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="/"
pid=7355 scontext=user_u:system_r:groupadd_t:s0 sgid=0
subj=user_u:system_r:groupadd_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=dir
tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tty=pts2 uid=0

Comment 1 Josef Kubin 2008-02-18 13:06:45 UTC
Send me please name of offending package, I would like to reproduce it.
Thank you.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-02-18 20:17:43 UTC
This is happening because you are sitting in the homedir when you execute your
update command.

When you install a package via RPM, rpm transitions to rpm_t and when it
executes groupadd it transition to groupadd_t, the C Library then does a getcwd
when the executable starts generating the AVC.  If you cd / before running rpm
or yum this AVC will not happen.  It can safely be ignored.



Comment 3 Josef Kubin 2008-02-19 16:06:55 UTC
And it means to create a don't audit rule. Right?

Comment 4 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2008-02-20 13:35:44 UTC
Works for me.

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2008-02-26 22:54:32 UTC
Well you can't really create a dontaudit rule for every possible directory you
would run this in.  

We could add a 

allow domain file_type:dir getattr;

or 

dontaudit domain file_type:dir getattr

and eliminate them that way.

I will allow this in rawhide.