Bug 703441

Summary: SELinux is preventing /sbin/setfiles from 'mac_admin' accesses on the capability2 Unknown.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hicham HAOUARI <hicham.haouari>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dwalsh, mgrepl
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Description Hicham HAOUARI 2011-05-10 10:49:07 UTC
SELinux is preventing /sbin/setfiles from 'mac_admin' accesses on the capability2 Unknown.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that setfiles should be allowed mac_admin access on the Unknown capability2 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 restorecon /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 [ capability2 ]
Source                        restorecon
Source Path                   /sbin/setfiles
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           python-2.7-8.fc14.1
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.9.7-31.fc14
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686
                              #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 07:04:18 UTC 2011 i686 i686
Alert Count                   5
First Seen                    Fri 04 Mar 2011 02:47:49 AM WET
Last Seen                     Fri 04 Mar 2011 03:04:21 AM WET
Local ID                      51c878dd-b86f-4b35-b218-86977250569a

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1299207861.195:74): avc:  denied  { mac_admin } for  pid=4813 comm="yum" capability=33  scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability2


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1299207861.195:74): arch=i386 syscall=lsetxattr success=no exit=EINVAL a0=15edd930 a1=47d142e7 a2=15f66d78 a3=31 items=0 ppid=4756 pid=4813 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts7 ses=1 comm=yum exe=/usr/bin/python subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: restorecon,unconfined_t,unconfined_t,capability2,mac_admin

audit2allow

#============= unconfined_t ==============
allow unconfined_t self:capability2 mac_admin;

audit2allow -R

#============= unconfined_t ==============
allow unconfined_t self:capability2 mac_admin;

Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2011-05-10 11:53:18 UTC
Did you execute the 'chcon' command?  

This means you tried to set a context via
chcon that the kernel/policy does not know about.

For example:

chcon -t abc_exec_t /bin/ps