Bug 528762 (mozilla-execmem)

Summary: Thunderbird bug causing an SELinux violation upon composing a message resulting in shutdown
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Harrington <bharrington>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: chemobejk, debaditya, dwalsh, gecko-bugs-nobody, idht4n, martikj2, mcepl, simon, stransky, tsukinokage
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brian Harrington 2009-10-13 15:58:45 UTC
Description of problem:
When trying to compose, thunderbird shuts down due to an SELinux alert:

type=AVC msg=audit(1254969080.584:29): avc:  denied  { execmem } for  pid=2057 comm="thunderbird-bin" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process

	Was caused by:
	One of the following booleans was set incorrectly.
	Description:
	Allow unconfined executables to make their stack executable.  This should never, ever be necessary. Probably indicates a badly coded executable, but could indicate an attack. This executable should be reported in bugzilla")

	Allow access by executing:
	# setsebool -P allow_execstack 1
	Description:
	Allow unconfined executables to map a memory region as both executable and writable, this is dangerous and the executable should be reported in bugzilla")

	Allow access by executing:
	# setsebool -P allow_execmem 1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-3.0-3.9.b4.fc12.i686

How reproducible:

Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try to compose a message
2.  ...
3.  Crash


Seriously though, when composing a message the window stays up and running until the cursor is placed in the body of the message.

Thus, if i click "reply" to a message it shuts down immediately (the cursor defaults to being in the body of the message).  If I compose a new message, it's not until I click in the body that thunderbird shuts down.

Actual results:

Thunderbird shuts down due to SELinunx

Expected results:

Thunderbird should not shut down due to SELinunx

Additional info:
[bharrington@kraken ~]$ thunderbird 
/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0b4/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  2543 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 1 Brian Harrington 2009-10-13 18:53:31 UTC
Also:

[bharrington@kraken ~]$ rpm -qa selinux-policy-targeted 
selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.32-24.fc12.noarch

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2009-10-14 08:42:47 UTC
JIT/SELinux issue...

Comment 3 Stefan Becker 2009-10-14 09:02:30 UTC
Created attachment 364727 [details]
GDB back trace of the crash

I don't know if the GDB backtrace helps.

But at least now I know why I can't write any replace anymore with TB :-[

Is there a better workaround than to allow execmem in SELinux?

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-10-14 14:11:17 UTC
*** Bug 528542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2009-10-15 12:49:06 UTC
We may relax the selinux policy for TB as we did for firefox until upstream approves the double page fix.

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2009-10-15 12:50:31 UTC
*** Bug 527880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jan Horak 2009-10-15 13:57:18 UTC
*** Bug 525354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 13:37:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 9 Chris Campbell 2010-02-16 13:57:09 UTC
*** Bug 565451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Simon 2010-02-25 12:16:04 UTC
Is there any solution to this problem that does not create a security risk, please?

Comment 11 Daniel Walsh 2010-02-25 13:53:00 UTC
You can either change the context of the thunderbird.bin to run with this priv
by setting it's context to execmem_exec_t.

# semanage fcontext -a -t execmem_exec_t
/usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin
# restorecon -R -v /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0

Or you can turn on the allow_execmem or allow_execstack booleans.  We have
turned these on as the default in F12 updates and F13.  There is not more
security risk then if you had SELinux disabled.

Comment 12 Matěj Cepl 2010-03-11 16:32:42 UTC
*** Bug 529690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Matěj Cepl 2010-03-11 16:51:16 UTC
*** Bug 548267 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Matěj Cepl 2010-03-11 16:51:26 UTC
*** Bug 528396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Matěj Cepl 2010-03-11 16:57:58 UTC
somehow related to bug 512845

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Comment 17 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 07:29:15 UTC
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