Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 446610
SELinux complains about memory allocation
Last modified: 2008-05-15 08:12:57 EDT
Description of problem: SELinux doesn't like memory allocation in openoffice Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openoffice-writer + subdependencies 2. run Writer Actual results: SeLinux output "Summary SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/swriter.bin from changing the access protection of memory on the heap. Detailed Description The /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/swriter.bin application attempted to change the access protection of memory on the heap (e,g., allocated using malloc). This is a potential security problem. Applications should not be doing this. Applications are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests web page explains how to remove this requirement. If /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/swriter.bin does not work and you need it to work, you can configure SELinux temporarily to allow this access until the application is fixed. Please file a bug report against this package. " Expected results: N/A Additional info:
Fedora 7 is basically at the end of life. Everything should be ok in F8 and F9 wrt selinux. And IIRC so was 7 actually. Quite possibly you have e.g. a third party video driver which doesn't work with selinux and writer (due to querying for opengl data) gets the blame