Bug 539451

Summary: Your system may be seriously compromised! /usr/sbin/nscd attempted to mmap low kernel memory.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Ward <cward>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Eric Paris <eparis>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 12CC: cward, dwalsh, mgrepl
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: setroubleshoot_trace_hash:c50535a069074bde56cdfc6f25631f059ee29076ea69eec3e91e52dd4d949d5f
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-11-20 13:19:39 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Chris Ward 2009-11-20 08:37:57 UTC
Summary:

Your system may be seriously compromised! /usr/sbin/nscd attempted to mmap low
kernel memory.

Detailed Description:

[nscd has a permissive type (nscd_t). This access was not denied.]

SELinux has denied the nscd the ability to mmap low area of the kernel address
space. The ability to mmap a low area of the address space, as configured by
/proc/sys/kernel/mmap_min_addr. Preventing such mappings helps protect against
exploiting null deref bugs in the kernel. All applications that need this access
should have already had policy written for them. If a compromised application
tries modify the kernel this AVC would be generated. This is a serious issue.
Your system may very well be compromised.

Allowing Access:

Contact your security administrator and report this issue.

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0
Target Objects                None [ memprotect ]
Source                        nscd
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/nscd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           nscd-2.11-2
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.32-41.fc12
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   mmap_zero
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed)
                              2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 29 16:16:22
                              EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   6
First Seen                    Thu 19 Nov 2009 02:56:58 PM CET
Last Seen                     Thu 19 Nov 2009 02:56:58 PM CET
Local ID                      f359a32f-9bcd-4419-a64c-97562f855796
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1258639018.274:88): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=5025 comm="nscd" scontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1258639018.274:88): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=5025 comm="nscd" scontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1258639018.274:88): avc:  denied  { mmap_zero } for  pid=5025 comm="nscd" scontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 tclass=memprotect

node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1258639018.274:88): arch=c000003e syscall=125 success=yes exit=0 a0=7fff9faab1f4 a1=0 a2=171 a3=24 items=0 ppid=5024 pid=5025 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="nscd" exe="/usr/sbin/nscd" subj=system_u:system_r:nscd_t:s0 key=(null)



Hash String generated from  selinux-policy-3.6.32-41.fc12,mmap_zero,nscd,nscd_t,nscd_t,memprotect,mmap_zero
audit2allow suggests:

#============= nscd_t ==============
allow nscd_t self:memprotect mmap_zero;

Comment 1 Eric Paris 2009-11-20 13:19:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 525537 ***