Bug 1398573 - SELinux is preventing fprintd from using the wake_alarm capability
Summary: SELinux is preventing fprintd from using the wake_alarm capability
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy-targeted
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-25 10:38 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2016-12-20 21:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 21:43:21 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2016-11-25 10:38:14 UTC
Description of problem:
After an update to kernel-4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64 on November 24th the following started to show quite regularly:

SELinux is preventing fprintd from using the wake_alarm capability.

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

If you believe that fprintd should have the wake_alarm capability by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'fprintd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-fprintd
# semodule -X 300 -i my-fprintd.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0
Target Objects                Unknown [ capability2 ]
Source                        fprintd
Source Path                   fprintd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          aaa.bbb.cc
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-158.24.fc23.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Permissive
Host Name                     aaa.bbb.cc
Platform                      Linux aaa.bbb.cc 4.8.8-100.fc23.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Nov 15 18:51:53 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   9
First Seen                    2016-11-24 18:44:37 CET
Last Seen                     2016-11-25 11:16:39 CET
Local ID                      9289498f-64e6-4947-9693-350bc2ed0eee

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1480068999.967:308): avc:  denied  { wake_alarm } for  pid=9816 comm="fprintd" capability=35  scontext=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0 tclass=capability2 permissive=1


Hash: fprintd,fprintd_t,fprintd_t,capability2,wake_alarm

 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.13.1-158.24

How reproducible:
the number of incidents seems to be growing


Additional info:
The same update included also perl with a bunch of modules, hwdata, ghostscript, bind99 and other ods-and-ends so that this is linked to a kernel version is only a guess.

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2016-11-25 13:05:34 UTC
This seems to happen when waking up a machine from suspend, but I cannot tell for sure if only in such circumstances (and I got the next one).

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2016-12-20 21:43:21 UTC
Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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