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Bug 1015702

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ping from using the sigkill access on a process
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.4CC: dwalsh, mmalik, robert.scheck, ssekidde
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Description Robert Scheck 2013-10-04 21:19:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1380800743.117:542452): avc:  denied  { sigkill } for  pid=5139 comm="check_ping" scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:nagios_services_plugin_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:system_r:nagios_t:s0 tclass=process


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1380800743.117:542452): arch=x86_64 syscall=kill success=yes exit=0 a0=0 a1=9 a2=1bf6500 a3=a392d393538382d items=0 ppid=5133 pid=5139 auid=0 uid=495 gid=495 euid=495 suid=495 fsuid=495 egid=495 sgid=495 fsgid=495 tty=(none) ses=21329 comm=check_ping exe=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ping subj=unconfined_u:system_r:nagios_services_plugin_t:s0 key=(null)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nagios-plugins-ping-1.4.16-5.el6.x86_64
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6_4.12.noarch

How reproducible:
Everytime if you force DNS and network timeouts (e.g. by killing the default
route or the DNS server thus it causes a timeout as in drop, not a reject).
Nagios seems to kill its not responding child somewhen - and this fails due
to the SELinux policy.

Actual results:
SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ping from using the 
sigkill access on a process

Expected results:
Personal expection would be that Nagios is allowed to kill its child process.

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2013-10-04 21:22:16 UTC
Cross-filed ticket #00955664 on the Red Hat customer portal.

Comment 4 Simon Sekidde 2014-06-08 21:25:49 UTC
Robert, 

This should be fixed in the latest RHEL6 policy 

   allow nagios_plugin_domain nagios_t : process { sigchld sigkill sigstop signull signal } ;

Comment 5 Robert Scheck 2014-06-23 10:01:12 UTC
Simon, since which version should this be fixed? Having here the latest RPM
(selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-231.el6_5.3.noarch), but nothing is mentioned
in changelog at all if I am not completely mistaken...

Comment 6 Simon Sekidde 2014-06-24 23:28:39 UTC
(In reply to Robert Scheck from comment #5)
> Simon, since which version should this be fixed? Having here the latest RPM
> (selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-231.el6_5.3.noarch), but nothing is mentioned
> in changelog at all if I am not completely mistaken...

selinux-policy-3.7.19-231.el6.noarch

Fixes are in the "policy-RHEL6.5.patch" file from the source RPM

257745 +allow nrpe_t nagios_plugin_domain:process { signal sigkill };

Comment 7 Robert Scheck 2014-06-25 21:08:47 UTC
Thank you, the line is there indeed.