Bug 692750

Summary: SELinux is preventing /home/<Host Name>/oald7/oald7-bin from using the execstack access on a process.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Varuna Seneviratna <varunaseneviratna>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dcantrell, dwalsh, mgrepl, varunaseneviratna
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Description Varuna Seneviratna 2011-04-01 03:01:55 UTC
Description of problem:
I installed Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary But when I try to execute it I get the Following Message from SELinux

SELinux Bug Reports



SELinux is preventing /home/<Host Name>/oald7/oald7-bin from using the 'execstack' accesses on a process.

*****  Plugin allow_execstack (53.1 confidence) suggests  ********************

If you believe that 
None
should not require execstack
Then you should clear the execstack flag and see if /home/Varuna/oald7/oald7-bin works correctly.
Report this as a bug on None.
You can clear the exestack flag by executing:
Do
execstack -c None

*****  Plugin catchall_boolean (42.6 confidence) suggests  *******************

If you want to 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
Then you must tell SELinux about this by enabling the 'allow_execstack' boolean.
Do
setsebool -P allow_execstack 1

*****  Plugin catchall (5.76 confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that oald7-bin should be allowed execstack access on processes labeled unconfined_t by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep oald7-bin /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1
                              023
Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1
                              023
Target Objects                Unknown [ process ]
Source                        oald7-bin
Source Path                   /home/<Host Name>/oald7/oald7-bin
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.9.7-37.fc14
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux <Host Name> 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Mon Feb
                              7 07:04:18 UTC 2011 i686 i686
Alert Count                   12
First Seen                    Fri 01 Apr 2011 08:03:23 AM IST
Last Seen                     Fri 01 Apr 2011 08:07:03 AM IST
Local ID                      688bbc90-7a39-453c-9a37-ec14c3e4af31

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1301625423.843:629): avc:  denied  { execstack } for  pid=6598 comm="oald7-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


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1301625423.843:629): arch=i386 syscall=mprotect success=no exit=EACCES a0=bfcf9000 a1=1000 a2=1000007 a3=bfcf91cc items=0 ppid=6593 pid=6598 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=1 comm=oald7-bin exe=/home/Varuna/oald7/oald7-bin subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: oald7-bin,unconfined_t,unconfined_t,process,execstack

audit2allow

#============= unconfined_t ==============
#!!!! This avc is allowed in the current policy

allow unconfined_t self:process execstack;

audit2allow -R

#============= unconfined_t ==============
#!!!! This avc is allowed in the current policy

allow unconfined_t self:process execstack;

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2011-04-04 18:19:37 UTC
Assigning to policy, but there may not be much that can be done there.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2011-04-04 19:23:47 UTC
You can either change the label of the executable to execmem_exec_t or turn the check off.

setsebool -P allow_execstack 1

Since the alert now states that it is allowed by default, I will close this bug.