Bug 1015437 - SELinux blocks openlmi-networking from reading /proc/net/dev
Summary: SELinux blocks openlmi-networking from reading /proc/net/dev
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Milos Malik
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-04 09:05 UTC by Radek Novacek
Modified: 2016-12-01 00:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.12.1-91.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:44:45 UTC
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Description Radek Novacek 2013-10-04 09:05:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
openlmi-networking fails to read /proc/net/dev file because it's blocked by selinux. openlmi-networking takes network device statistics out of this file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.12.1-86.el7

AVC follows:

time->Fri Oct  4 12:57:36 2013
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1380884256.792:465): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=7f0439e435dc a1=0 a2=1b6 a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2137 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="cimprovagt" exe="/usr/libexec/pegasus/cimprovagt" subj=system_u:system_r:pegasus_openlmi_system_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1380884256.792:465): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2137 comm="cimprovagt" name="dev" dev="proc" ino=4026531975 scontext=system_u:system_r:pegasus_openlmi_system_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_net_t:s0 tclass=file
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Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2013-10-16 09:38:18 UTC 
commit a3ca57a681a4a7a5aed5eed3cd49db2e034648e0
Author: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Date:   Wed Oct 16 11:38:01 2013 +0200

    Allow openlmi-networking to read /proc/net/dev
Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:44:45 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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