Bug 232643 - AVC on bootup: read access to /dev/random?
Summary: AVC on bootup: read access to /dev/random?
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-16 14:30 UTC by Tom London
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-03-28 14:36:50 UTC
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Description Tom London 2007-03-16 14:30:41 UTC
Description of problem:

type=AVC msg=audit(1174054492.520:9): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2525
comm="automount" name="random" dev=tmpfs ino=3098
scontext=system_u:system_r:automount_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1174054492.520:9): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=no
exit=-13 a0=2ff243 a1=0 a2=2f7730 a3=812ac280 items=0 ppid=2524 pid=2525
auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
tty=(none) comm="automount" exe="/usr/sbin/automount"
subj=system_u:system_r:automount_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1174054492.520:10): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2530
comm="automount" name="random" dev=tmpfs ino=3098
scontext=system_u:system_r:automount_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1174054492.520:10): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=no
exit=-13 a0=dd6243 a1=0 a2=dce730 a3=812ac808 items=0 ppid=2524 pid=2530
auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
tty=(none) comm="automount" exe="/usr/sbin/automount"
subj=system_u:system_r:automount_t:s0 key=(null)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
autofs-5.0.1-5



How reproducible:
every time

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Comment 1 Jeff Moyer 2007-03-16 14:38:45 UTC
Dan,

Autofs has an option for supporting a random multimount selection scheme. 
Because of this, we seed the random function with /dev/random at daemon startup.
 So, can you modify the policy accordingly?  Should this be reassigned to policy?


Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2007-03-19 20:21:17 UTC
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.5.8-8.fc7


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