Bug 296151 – Easy DoS by setroubleshootd

Bug 296151 - Easy DoS by setroubleshootd

Summary:	Easy DoS by setroubleshootd

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	setroubleshoot (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2007-09-19 08:17 EDT by Milan Kerslager
Modified:	2011-05-25 11:01 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2011-05-25 11:01:38 EDT
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Description Milan Kerslager 2007-09-19 08:17:18 EDT

Setroubleshood eats a lot of memory causing OOM. Attacker is able to perform a
lot of HTTP requests with permission denied messages by SELinux and running
setroubleshootd daemon will eats all available memory (2GB RAM + 4GB in swap in
my case).

Comment 1 John Dennis 2008-01-09 18:50:13 EST

This problem should be addressed by the new setroubleshoot 2.0 series scheduled
for inclusion in the RHEL 5.2 update.

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