Bug 619982

Summary:

SELinux is preventing lancelot from making the program stack executable.

Detailed Description:

[SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.]

The lancelot application attempted to make its stack executable. This is a
potential security problem. This should never ever be necessary. Stack memory is
not executable on most OSes these days and this will not change. Executable
stack memory is one of the biggest security problems. An execstack error might
in fact be most likely raised by malicious code. Applications are sometimes
coded incorrectly and request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection
Tests (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how
to remove this requirement. If lancelot does not work and you need it to work,
you can configure SELinux temporarily to allow this access until the application
is fixed. Please file a bug report.

Allowing Access:

Sometimes a library is accidentally marked with the execstack flag, if you find
a library with this flag you can clear it with the execstack -c LIBRARY_PATH.
Then retry your application. If the app continues to not work, you can turn the
flag back on with execstack -s LIBRARY_PATH. Otherwise, if you trust lancelot to
run correctly, you can change the context of the executable to execmem_exec_t.
"chcon -t execmem_exec_t 'lancelot'" You must also change the default file
context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel.
"semanage fcontext -a -t execmem_exec_t 'lancelot'"

Fix Command:

chcon -t execmem_exec_t 'lancelot'

Additional Information:

Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0
Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0
Target Objects                None [ process ]
Source                        ksmserver
Source Path                   ksmserver
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.32-118.fc12
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Permissive
Plugin Name                   allow_execstack
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed)
                              2.6.32.16-141.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 7
                              04:49:59 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1076
First Seen                    Wed 28 Jul 2010 02:23:20 PM EDT
Last Seen                     Sat 31 Jul 2010 02:13:05 AM EDT
Local ID                      26cbce65-6075-4d92-941f-614b7ada7e28
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1280556785.298:104): avc:  denied  { execstack } for  pid=3588 comm="lancelot" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process



Hash String generated from  allow_execstack,ksmserver,unconfined_t,unconfined_t,process,execstack
audit2allow suggests:

#============= unconfined_t ==============
#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execstack'

allow unconfined_t self:process execstack;