Bug 436071

Summary: Lots of denials for exim
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Anderson <david>
Component: selinux-policy-targetedAssignee: Josef Kubin <jkubin>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description David Anderson 2008-03-05 07:44:17 UTC
Exim logs lots of SELinux denials when delivering local mail. It always has - 
I assumed it was popular enough that it would get fixed pretty quickly, but 
it's still there - hence this report.

Here's a typical sequence when Exim is delivering a local mail:

avc: denied { search } for comm="sendmail" dev=dm-0 egid=93 euid=93 
exe="/usr/sbin/exim" exit=-13 fsgid=93 fsuid=93 gid=93 items=0 name="exim" 
pid=27677 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=93 
subj=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=93 tclass=dir 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:exim_log_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=93 
avc: denied { setattr } for comm="sendmail" dev=dm-0 egid=500 euid=0 
exe="/usr/sbin/exim" exit=-13 fsgid=500 fsuid=0 gid=500 items=0 name="exim" 
pid=27677 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=500 
subj=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=0 tclass=dir 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:exim_spool_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0 
avc: denied { getattr } for comm="sendmail" dev=dm-0 egid=500 euid=0 
exe="/usr/sbin/exim" exit=-13 fsgid=500 fsuid=0 gid=500 items=0 
path="/var/spool/exim" pid=27677 
scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=500 
subj=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=0 tclass=dir 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:exim_spool_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0 
avc: denied { search } for comm="sendmail" dev=dm-0 egid=93 euid=93 
exe="/usr/sbin/exim" exit=-13 fsgid=93 fsuid=93 gid=93 items=0 name="exim" 
pid=27677 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=93 
subj=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=93 tclass=dir 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:exim_spool_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=93

Comment 1 David Anderson 2008-03-05 07:46:02 UTC
Actually that example may not be for a local mail, but it's an example of 
something I see regularly anyway.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-03-05 20:59:21 UTC
Josef, this is allowed by Fedora8 and Rawhide policy 

Just adding exim_manage_logs(system_mail_t) to mta.te should fix.

Comment 3 Josef Kubin 2008-03-07 23:12:42 UTC
fixed in selinux-policy-2.6.4-72.fc7

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 15:21:51 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 03:03:02 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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