From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5 Description of problem: Whenever I try to print anything to the "cups-pdf" print queue, I get the following SELINUX denial 6 times, but the PDF file gets created anyway. I.e. the SELINUX denial is a nuisance but not fatal. Summary: SELinux is preventing sh (cups_pdf_t) "search" to ./nscd (nscd_var_run_t). Detailed Description: SELinux denied access requested by sh. It is not expected that this access is required by sh and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional access. Allowing Access: Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to restore the default system file context for ./nscd, restorecon -v './nscd' If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this access. Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended. Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package. Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:cups_pdf_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:nscd_var_run_t:s0 Target Objects ./nscd [ dir ] Source cups-pdf Source Path /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf Port <Unknown> Host toaster Source RPM Packages bash-3.2-22.fc9 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.3.1-55.fc9 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name catchall_file Host Name toaster Platform Linux toaster 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 6 First Seen Tue 03 Jun 2008 04:05:04 AM EDT Last Seen Tue 03 Jun 2008 04:05:04 AM EDT Local ID 09a49cea-9724-4967-bb2d-d301cb86d8ef Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages host=toaster type=AVC msg=audit(1212480304.71:411): avc: denied { search } for pid=19347 comm="sh" name="nscd" dev=md2 ino=16334891 scontext=system_u:system_r:cups_pdf_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nscd_var_run_t:s0 tclass=dir host=toaster type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1212480304.71:411): arch=c000003e syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=0 a1=7fff3fb5af40 a2=6e a3=3e2eb67a70 items=0 ppid=19346 pid=19347 auid=4294967295 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="sh" exe="/bin/bash" subj=system_u:system_r:cups_pdf_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-pdf-2.4.7-1.fc9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.log in 2. try to print anything to cups-pdf "printer". 3. Actual Results: PDF file gets created ok, but also get the AVC denial popup. Expected Results: PDF gets created without the SELINUX noise. Additional info: this system is fairly vanilla X86_64 fresh-install of F9 (Sulphur) on a Core-2-Duo E6700. Searched the bugs for cups-pdf, and while I saw other selinux denials reported for cups-pdf, this one didn't match any of the ones already reported. SELINUX == neighbor's barking dog at 3am... a pain in the ahhss, but I hope it discourages the real burglars? 8-P
confirmed on fresh x86 F9 installation
Well, i also confirm this AVC. I must investigated on it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 448652 ***