Bug 446610 - SELinux complains about memory allocation
Summary: SELinux complains about memory allocation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openoffice.org
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Caolan McNamara
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-15 11:22 UTC by Simon Fonceca
Modified: 2008-05-15 12:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: F-9
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Last Closed: 2008-05-15 12:12:57 UTC
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Description Simon Fonceca 2008-05-15 11:22:29 UTC
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:

Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2008-05-15 12:12:57 UTC
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


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