Bug 1397802 - SELinux prevents console-kit-daemon from creating /var/log/ConsoleKit directory
Summary: SELinux prevents console-kit-daemon from creating /var/log/ConsoleKit directory
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 6.9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Milos Malik
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-23 11:34 UTC by Milos Malik
Modified: 2017-03-21 09:49 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.7.19-305.el6
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Last Closed: 2017-03-21 09:49:48 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:0627 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE selinux-policy bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:29:23 UTC

Description Milos Malik 2016-11-23 11:34:33 UTC
Description of problem:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.7.19-292.el6.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-292.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
* always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a clean RHEL-6.8 machine (targeted policy is active)
2. try to run semanage even if it's not installed
# semanage
Command not found. Install package 'policycoreutils-python' to provide command 'semanage'? [N/y] # 
3. skip the installation of the package

Actual results (enforcing mode):
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time->Wed Nov 23 06:24:42 2016
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1479900282.454:212): arch=c000003e syscall=83 success=no exit=-13 a0=dbdf00 a1=1ed a2=2 a3=7fff61ab4a90 items=0 ppid=1702 pid=1703 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="console-kit-dae" exe="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon" subj=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1479900282.454:212): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=1703 comm="console-kit-dae" name="ConsoleKit" scontext=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
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Actual results (permissive mode):
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time->Wed Nov 23 06:27:02 2016
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1479900422.521:214): arch=c000003e syscall=83 success=yes exit=0 a0=1a62f00 a1=1ed a2=2 a3=7fff77de50d0 items=0 ppid=1786 pid=1787 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="console-kit-dae" exe="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon" subj=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1479900422.521:214): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=1787 comm="console-kit-dae" name="ConsoleKit" scontext=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
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Expected results:
* no AVCs
* /var/log/ConsoleKit directory is labeled correctly during its creation

# ls -dZ /var/log/ConsoleKit
drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0   /var/log/ConsoleKit
# ls -dZ /var/log/ConsoleKit/history 
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:consolekit_log_t:s0 /var/log/ConsoleKit/history
#

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 09:49:48 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0627.html


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