Description of problem: Today I found new 'denied' entry in audit.log from this night. It was very likely caused by logrotate of fail2ban. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fail2ban-0.8.11-2.fc19.noarch selinux-policy-3.12.1-74.19.fc19.noarch How reproducible: happened once Steps to Reproduce: 1. trigger fail2ban logrotate Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 Target Objects [ file ] Source fail2ban-client Source Path /usr/bin/python2.7 Port <Unknown> Host <Unknown> Source RPM Packages python-2.7.5-11.fc20.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-166.fc20.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Permissive Host Name copr-fe-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org Platform Linux copr-fe-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2014-06-01 03:27:48 UTC Last Seen 2014-06-01 03:27:48 UTC Local ID e82dddf8-0589-4aef-a2fa-b461fa9e9ea9 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1401593268.483:50334): avc: denied { ioctl } for pid=10225 comm="fail2ban-client" path="/usr/bin/fail2ban-client" dev="vda1" ino=25526 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1401593268.483:50334): arch=x86_64 syscall=ioctl success=no exit=ENOTTY a0=3 a1=5401 a2=7fff10cf3720 a3=7fff10cf35b0 items=0 ppid=10223 pid=10225 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=101 comm=fail2ban-client exe=/usr/bin/python2.7 subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
And the same client had also this entries one day before: Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 Target Objects [ file ] Source fail2ban-client Source Path /usr/bin/python2.7 Port <Unknown> Host <Unknown> Source RPM Packages python-2.7.5-11.fc20.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-166.fc20.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Permissive Host Name copr-fe-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org Platform Linux copr-fe-dev.cloud.fedoraproject.org 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 13:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2014-05-31 03:17:55 UTC Last Seen 2014-05-31 03:17:55 UTC Local ID a0f5aafd-d251-44f7-aced-27d54246d6f6 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1401506275.927:33326): avc: denied { execute } for pid=8501 comm="sh" name="fail2ban-client" dev="vda1" ino=25526 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 tclass=file type=AVC msg=audit(1401506275.927:33326): avc: denied { read open } for pid=8501 comm="sh" path="/usr/bin/fail2ban-client" dev="vda1" ino=25526 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 tclass=file type=AVC msg=audit(1401506275.927:33326): avc: denied { execute_no_trans } for pid=8501 comm="sh" path="/usr/bin/fail2ban-client" dev="vda1" ino=25526 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:fail2ban_client_exec_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1401506275.927:33326): arch=x86_64 syscall=execve success=yes exit=0 a0=25f4430 a1=25f34d0 a2=25f3060 a3=7fff7e022690 items=0 ppid=8500 pid=8501 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=67 comm=fail2ban-client exe=/usr/bin/python2.7 subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
selinux-policy-3.12.1-167.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-167.fc20
Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-167.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-167.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-7240/selinux-policy-3.12.1-167.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20
Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-7499/selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
selinux-policy-3.12.1-171.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.