Bug 978866

Summary:	SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox from using the execmem access on a process
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Siddharth <swaikar>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Red Hat Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.5	CC:	stransky, vgaikwad
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2013-10-08 14:05:18 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Siddharth 2013-06-27 08:58:53 UTC

Description of problem:
firefox segfault due to SELinux is preventing it from using execmem

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
firefox-17.0.6-1.el6_4

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run firefox
2.crash
3.

Actual results:
firefox crash

Expected results:
firefox would not crash

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Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2013-10-08 14:05:18 UTC

Yes, it's because of the JIT compiler. But mozilla refuses to include our patch which fixes this issue. So we don't have any fix for that on Firefox side.