Bug 147334 – User_t can't { read ioctl } event_device_t

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Bug 147334 - User_t can't { read ioctl } event_device_t

Summary:	User_t can't { read ioctl } event_device_t

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	selinux-policy-strict (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2005-02-07 08:34 EST by Ivan Gyurdiev
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-02-07 17:34:46 EST
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Description Ivan Gyurdiev 2005-02-07 08:34:01 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041228 Firefox/1.0 Fedora/1.0-8

Description of problem:
Look, UT2004 demo can't { read ioctl } the event device.
Is this a capability that should be added to user_t?

audit(1107767201.508:0): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=9006
exe=/home/phantom/ut2004demo/System/ut2004-bin name=event0 dev=tmpfs
ino=6370 scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:event_device_t tclass=chr_file

audit(1107767201.509:0): avc:  denied  { ioctl } for  pid=9006
exe=/home/phantom/ut2004demo/System/ut2004-bin path=/dev/input/event0
dev=tmpfs ino=6370 scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:event_device_t tclass=chr_file


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-strict-1.21.8-4

How reproducible:
Didn't try

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Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2005-02-07 11:06:03 EST

I am going to allow base_user apps to read event_device_t.  I don't know of any
security implications of this.  

Policy 1.21.8-6

Comment 2 Ivan Gyurdiev 2005-02-07 17:34:46 EST

Hmm, if you say it's okay...

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