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Bug 1003012

Summary: in.ntalkd runs as init_t when ntalk.socket is active
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: dwalsh, mgrepl
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.12.1-77.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 10:00:53 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Milos Malik 2013-08-30 13:32:31 UTC
Description of problem:
It reminds me of bz#965140.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-devel-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-doc-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-minimum-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-mls-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.12.1-73.el7.noarch
talk-server-0.17-42.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# systemctl enable ntalk.socket
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.socket' '/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/ntalk.socket'
# systemctl start ntalk.socket
# systemctl status ntalk.socket
ntalk.socket - Talk Server Activation Socket
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.socket; enabled)
   Active: active (listening) since Fri 2013-08-30 09:28:23 EDT; 22s ago
     Docs: man:ntalkd(8)
           man:talk(1)
   Listen: 0.0.0.0:518 (Datagram)

# nc --udp 127.0.0.1 518
pokus
o^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 nc --udp 127.0.0.1 518
# ps -efZ | grep talk
system_u:system_r:init_t:s0     nobody   14507     1  0 09:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 root 14509 7635  0 09:29 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto talk
# fg
nc --udp 127.0.0.1 518
^C

Actual results:
 * in.ntalkd runs as init_t

Expected results:
 * in.ntalkd runs as ktalkd_t

Comment 1 Milos Malik 2013-08-30 13:59:13 UTC
The same problem appears when following daemons are executed by systemd:
 * /usr/sbin/in.rexecd
 * /usr/sbin/in.rlogind

Comment 2 Milos Malik 2013-08-30 14:19:51 UTC
The list of daemons executed by systemd and running as init_t:
 * /usr/sbin/in.rexecd
 * /usr/sbin/in.rlogind
 * /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
 * /usr/sbin/in.authd

Comment 4 Milos Malik 2013-09-02 09:47:32 UTC
Following services can be executed by systemd when a TCP connection is established to their port:

# pwd
/usr/lib/systemd/system
# grep -i -e "listenstream=[0-9]" -e "listendatagram=[0-9]" *.socket
amanda.socket:ListenStream=10080
amanda-udp.socket:ListenDatagram=10080
auth.socket:ListenStream=113
btimed.socket:ListenDatagram=23456
cups-lpd.socket:ListenStream=515
cvs.socket:ListenStream=2401
dovecot.socket:ListenStream=0.0.0.0:143
dovecot.socket:ListenStream=0.0.0.0:993
eklogin.socket:ListenStream=2105
ekrb5-telnet.socket:ListenStream=23
ekshell.socket:ListenStream=544
finger.socket:ListenStream=79
git.socket:ListenStream=9418
gssftp.socket:ListenStream=21
klogin.socket:ListenStream=543
krb5-telnet.socket:ListenStream=23
kshell.socket:ListenStream=544
ntalk.socket:ListenDatagram=0.0.0.0:518
qarshd.socket:ListenStream=5008
rexec.socket:ListenStream=512
rlogin.socket:ListenStream=513
rsh.socket:ListenStream=514
rsyncd.socket:ListenStream=873
sshd.socket:ListenStream=22
systemd-journal-gatewayd.socket:ListenStream=19531
telnet.socket:ListenStream=23
tftp.socket:ListenDatagram=69
#

Manual tests (see Steps to Reproduce in comment#0), which I did on a fresh RHEL-7 machine provided by beaker, showed that only following services run under correct SELinux context:
dovecot.socket
finger.socket
gssftp.socket
qarshd.socket
sshd.socket
tftp.socket

Comment 5 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-02 12:15:25 UTC
# ls -Z /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk*
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:systemd_unit_file_t:s0 /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.service
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:systemd_unit_file_t:s0 /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.socket

so we don't have support for these unit files. Could you check labels also for others where you see it does not work.

Comment 6 Milos Malik 2013-09-02 12:26:34 UTC
I don't think the problem is caused by incorrect labelling of unit files because amanda and cups-lpd run as init_t even if their unit files are labelled correctly. On the other hand dovecot and finger daemons run under correct context even if their unit files are not labelled correctly.

-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:amanda_unit_file_t:s0 amanda.socket
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:cupsd_unit_file_t:s0 cups-lpd.socket
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:systemd_unit_file_t:s0 dovecot.socket
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:systemd_unit_file_t:s0 finger.socket

Comment 7 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-02 13:18:32 UTC
Yes, I probably see also another bug related to this issue. I am investigating it.

Comment 8 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-02 13:28:56 UTC
Ok, I was able to fix it for talk-server.

# nc --udp 127.0.0.1 518test
test

$ ps -eZ |grep ktalk
system_u:system_r:ktalkd_t:s0   14721 ?        00:00:00 in.ntalkd

$ ps -eZ |grep init
system_u:system_r:init_t:s0         1 ?        00:00:16 systemd


commit 7551ae747a485e95e965a05ba9bd3866b58205aa
Author: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Date:   Mon Sep 2 15:15:42 2013 +0200

    Make ktalk as init domain

diff --git a/ktalk.te b/ktalk.te
index 8da4d5d..1166856 100644
--- a/ktalk.te
+++ b/ktalk.te
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ policy_module(ktalk, 1.8.1)
 
 type ktalkd_t;
 type ktalkd_exec_t;
+init_daemon_domain(ktalkd_t, ktalkd_exec_t)
 inetd_udp_service_domain(ktalkd_t, ktalkd_exec_t)

Comment 9 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-02 16:13:48 UTC
Adding fixes for others.

Comment 11 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-05 12:56:45 UTC
6804babd35f27f71fb799be631e6bd2119e889ab fixes this in git.

Comment 12 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-05 12:57:56 UTC
bed107b183700a0277093de44e59f041dc146408 fixes this in git.

Comment 14 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:00:53 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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