Description of problem:

I'm getting AVC Denials from SELinux when sendmail tries to execute mailman because the milter file descriptors are leaked (remain open) when sendmail forks to execute mailman.

According to Paul Howarth on the fedora-selinux-list:

> Do your milters exec other programs? There are a couple of sockets
> involved in the milter process (one in libmilter that shows up in the
> milter process itself, and one at the other end of the connection in
> sendmail) that don't have close-on-exec set, so their descriptors leak
> when they exec other programs, and that looks like what you're seeing
> here. I've submitted patches against 8.14.3 upstream many months ago
> but there hasn't been a new release since.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

sendmail-8.14.3-3.fc10.i386
selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-41.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup sendmail to call a mailman list via:

  mailman:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"

2. send mail (from another host) to this address
3. Look in the audit log.
  
Actual results:

Summary

SELinux is preventing mailman (mailman_mail_t) "read write" sendmail_t.

Detailed Description

SELinux denied access requested by mailman. It is not expected that this access is required by mailman 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

You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
Or you can disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux
protection is not recommended. Please file a bug report against this
package.

Additional Information
Source Context:  system_u:system_r:mailman_mail_t:s0
Target Context:  system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0
Target Objects:  socket [ unix_stream_socket ]
Source:  mailman
Source Path:  /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman
Port:  <Unknown>
Host:  <redacted>
Source RPM Packages:  mailman-2.1.11-3.fc10
Target RPM Packages:  
Policy RPM:  selinux-policy-3.5.13-41.fc10
Selinux Enabled:  True
Policy Type:  targeted
MLS Enabled:  True
Enforcing Mode:  Enforcing
Plugin Name:  catchall
Host Name:  code.gnucash.org
Platform:  Linux code.gnucash.org 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 02:09:37 EST 2009 i686 athlon
Alert Count:  1
First Seen:  Sun 08 Feb 2009 11:28:40 AM EST
Last Seen:  Sun 08 Feb 2009 03:04:01 PM EST
Local ID:  606e93dc-55fc-4454-acfa-1081a87deb63
Line Numbers:  

Raw Audit Messages :

node=code.gnucash.org type=AVC msg=audit(1234123441.829:421): avc:
denied { read write } for pid=17455 comm="mailman"
path="socket:[105075]" dev=sockfs ino=105075
scontext=system_u:system_r:mailman_mail_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=code.gnucash.org type=AVC msg=audit(1234123441.829:421): avc:
denied { read write } for pid=17455 comm="mailman"
path="socket:[105077]" dev=sockfs ino=105077
scontext=system_u:system_r:mailman_mail_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=code.gnucash.org type=AVC msg=audit(1234123441.829:421): avc:
denied { read write } for pid=17455 comm="mailman"
path="socket:[105079]" dev=sockfs ino=105079
scontext=system_u:system_r:mailman_mail_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=code.gnucash.org type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1234123441.829:421):
arch=40000003 syscall=11 success=yes exit=0 a0=8d42e38 a1=8d42f20
a2=8d42508 a3=0 items=0 ppid=17454 pid=17455 auid=4294967295 uid=8
gid=12 euid=8 suid=8 fsuid=8 egid=41 sgid=41 fsgid=41 tty=(none)
ses=4294967295 comm="mailman" exe="/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman"
subj=system_u:system_r:mailman_mail_t:s0 key=(null)


Expected results:

Sendmail shouldn't leak sockets, so there shouldn't be any AVC denials.

Additional info:

see the thread on the fedora-selinux-list:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2009-February/msg00060.html