Bug 376731 – selinux prevents xinetd from listening on nntp port 119 for leafnode

Bug 376731 - selinux prevents xinetd from listening on nntp port 119 for leafnode

Summary:	selinux prevents xinetd from listening on nntp port 119 for leafnode

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	selinux-policy (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2007-11-11 19:23 EST by Scott Douglas-Watson
Modified:	2008-01-30 14:20 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-01-30 14:20:37 EST
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Description Scott Douglas-Watson 2007-11-11 19:23:07 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071030 Fedora/2.0.0.8-2.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8

Description of problem:
After enabling leafnode with xinetd, I get the following denial message:

avc: denied { name_bind } for comm=xinetd egid=0 euid=0 exe=/usr/sbin/xinetd
exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 pid=7482
scontext=user_u:system_r:inetd_t:s0 sgid=0 src=119
subj=user_u:system_r:inetd_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=tcp_socket
tcontext=system_u:object_r:innd_port_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.0.8-47.fc8 Leafnode-1.11.6-2.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install leafnode
2. enable leafnode by editing /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode
3. restart xinetd

Actual Results:
Cannot connect to leafnode news server. setroubleshoot message appears in /var/log/messages

Expected Results:
Should be able to connect to leafnode

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-11-12 10:19:34 EST

Fixed in selinux-policy-3.0.8-51.fc8

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-01-30 14:20:37 EST

Bulk closing all bugs in Fedora updates in the modified state.  If you bug is
not fixed, please reopen.

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