Bug 1258983 - SELinux is preventing iptables from 'append' accesses on the file /etc/hosts.deny.
Summary: SELinux is preventing iptables from 'append' accesses on the file /etc/hosts....
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: denyhosts
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Tibbitts
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:908d6237a68a185d24fc89b4c05...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-01 16:31 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2017-08-08 12:11 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 12:11:39 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2015-09-01 16:31:26 UTC
Description of problem:
After denyhosts installation and startup
SELinux is preventing iptables from 'append' accesses on the file /etc/hosts.deny.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If vous pensez que iptables devrait être autorisé à accéder append sur hosts.deny file par défaut.
Then vous devriez rapporter ceci en tant qu'anomalie.
Vous pouvez générer un module de stratégie local pour autoriser cet accès.
Do
autoriser cet accès pour le moment en exécutant :
# grep iptables /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:net_conf_t:s0
Target Objects                /etc/hosts.deny [ file ]
Source                        iptables
Source Path                   iptables
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           setup-2.9.8-2.fc23.noarch
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-145.fc24.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 4.2.0-0.rc8.git3.1.fc24.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Fri Aug 28 15:28:38 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   17
First Seen                    2015-09-01 18:28:17 CEST
Last Seen                     2015-09-01 18:28:17 CEST
Local ID                      2df2d36f-46e2-4720-a4f4-a7dbcccdbe27

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1441124897.375:266503): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=31151 comm="iptables" path="/etc/hosts.deny" dev="dm-0" ino=67150005 scontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:net_conf_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0


Hash: iptables,iptables_t,net_conf_t,file,append

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-145.fc24.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.6.2
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.2.0-0.rc8.git3.1.fc24.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2015-09-02 07:07:11 UTC
Description of problem:
on boot, after relabel

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-145.fc24.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.6.2
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.2.0-1.fc24.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2015-09-11 19:20:03 UTC
Looks like a leaked file descriptor

Do you have some script that is updating denyhosts and later running iptabels?

Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2015-09-12 19:52:13 UTC
No script, the system is not finished installing yet, it's all systemd/networkmanager/dbus calling each other

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2015-09-15 13:19:22 UTC
Might want to just dontaudit it.

Comment 5 Jason Tibbitts 2015-09-15 20:23:35 UTC
Is there anything here that I can fix in denyhosts?  If possible I'd like to fix this the "right way" but I'm not entirely sure what is happening or exactly how I would prevent leaked file descriptors.

Denyhosts itself will call into iptables (and hopefully soon ipset) so if it's leaking FDs when it calls them then that needs to be fixed regardless.

Of course I still have no idea at all why iptables would itself try to modify /etc/hosts.deny.

Comment 6 Miroslav Grepl 2015-11-09 10:46:40 UTC
I don't see it as an issue directly in the denyhosts code. Are we able to reproduce it?

Comment 7 Nicolas Mailhot 2015-11-09 12:15:34 UTC
Well, right now I need to find the time to de-rack the system to rescue it, it seems to have lost its network access after the last update round

Comment 8 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 13:42:05 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

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