Bug 241916 – SELinux targeted policy prevents pppd from updating /etc/resolv.conf

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Bug 241916 - SELinux targeted policy prevents pppd from updating /etc/resolv.conf

Summary:	SELinux targeted policy prevents pppd from updating /etc/resolv.conf

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	selinux-policy (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2007-05-31 13:23 EDT by Karl Hastings
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:12 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2007-08-22 10:13:49 EDT
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Description Karl Hastings 2007-05-31 13:23:11 EDT

Description of problem:
targeted policy does not allow pppd to update /etc/resolv.conf

Actual results:
SELinux prevents pppd from updating /etc/resolv.conf

Expected results:
pppd updates /etc/resolv.conf

Additional info:
Source Context:  system_u:system_r:pppd_t
Target Context:  user_u:object_r:pppd_etc_t
Target Objects:  resolv.conf [ file ]
Affected RPM Packages:  ppp-2.4.4-1.fc6 [application]
Policy RPM:  selinux-policy-2.4.6-69.fc6
Selinux Enabled:  True
Policy Type:  targeted
MLS Enabled:  True
Enforcing Mode:  Permissive
Plugin Name:  plugins.disable_trans
Host Name:  kasmith
Platform:  Linux kasmith 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 19:48:40 EDT 2007
i686 i686
Alert Count:  106
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Raw Audit Messages :avc: denied { write } for comm="pppd" dev=dm-4 egid=0 euid=0
exe="/usr/sbin/pppd" exit=11 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="resolv.conf"
pid=3604 scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 sgid=0
subj=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=file
tcontext=user_u:object_r:pppd_etc_t:s0 tty=ttyUSB2 uid=0

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-06-01 14:06:07 EDT

Fixed in selinux-policy-2.4.6-74.fc6

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2007-08-22 10:13:49 EDT

Fixed in current release

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