Bug 170587 - pam_selinux.so will misreport errors on relabelling terminal devices
Summary: pam_selinux.so will misreport errors on relabelling terminal devices
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor...
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Depends On: 153711
Blocks: 168429
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-13 06:49 UTC by Tomas Mraz
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0093
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-03-07 18:49:59 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2006:0093 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE pam bug fix update 2006-03-06 05:00:00 UTC

Description Tomas Mraz 2005-10-13 06:49:56 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #153711 +++

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Description of problem:
The below code from pam-0.78-selinux.patch has a bug.  It should use ptr  
instead of ttybuf when reporting the error so that if the strncmp() returns  
zero the correct data will be used.  This has been noted when su experiences  
sighup.  
  
+  if(strncmp("/dev/", tty, 5)) {  
+    snprintf(ttybuf,sizeof(ttybuf),"/dev/%s",tty);  
+    ptr = ttybuf;  
+  }  
+  else  
+    ptr = tty;  
+  
+  if (setfilecon(ptr, context))  
+  {  
+      syslog(LOG_NOTICE,  
+             _("Warning!  Could not relabel %s with %s, not relabeling.\n"),  
+             ttybuf,context);  
+  }  
  
Also note that in the case of a kill -1 on the sshd for a ssh login it's  
normal that the /dev/pts device will be gone before su notices anything has  
happened.  So maybe ENOENT should not even be logged in this case. 
 
The URL I've given is for the fedora-selinux-list discussion of this issue. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-0.78-5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Login via ssh and su to another account.  Then kill -1 the sshd controlling 
the session.  Note that su logs a message such as the following: 
Apr  3 11:58:51 localhost su[3659]: Warning!  Could not relabel ,
\uffff\uff7f\u0661\uffff with user_u:object_r:devpts_t, not relabeling.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-03-07 18:49:59 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0093.html



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