Bug 1932676 - SELinux is preventing privoxy from using the execmem access on a process.
Summary: SELinux is preventing privoxy from using the execmem access on a process.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1917099
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: privoxy
Version: 32
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-24 22:08 UTC by aighie5E
Modified: 2021-02-25 08:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-02-25 08:40:45 UTC
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Description aighie5E 2021-02-24 22:08:10 UTC 
Description of problem: SELinux is preventing privoxy from using the execmem access on a process.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.10.16-100.fc32.x86_645.10.16-100.fc32.x86_64
Privoxy version 3.0.31
Mozilla Firefox 85.0.1

How reproducible: very easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf distro-sync upgrrade to 5.10.16-100.fc32.x86_645.10.16-100.fc32.x86_64

2. Firefox to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=slv

3.

Actual results:  Going on 23,383 SELinux alerts.


Expected results: 0 SELinux alerts prior to dnf distro-sync upgrade.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Zdenek Pytela 2021-02-25 08:20:11 UTC 
The execmem permission is required for mapping a memory region as executable which is not common and is possibly insecure so it is disabled by default.
Request for it may indicate an issue with the package or library code, so switching the component for the maintainer to assess this request.
Comment 2 Zdenek Pytela 2021-02-25 08:40:45 UTC 
We are already tracking this bug, closing as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1917099 ***
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