Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 510931
SELinux is preventing epiphany from changing a writable memory segment executable.
Last modified: 2011-06-27 10:17:07 EDT
The epiphany application attempted to change the access protection of memory (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 epiphany 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. node= type=AVC msg=audit(1247413659.540:35550): avc: denied { execmem } for pid=31724 comm="epiphany" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process node= type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1247413659.540:35550): arch=c000003e syscall=9 success=yes exit=0 a0=0 a1=4000 a2=7 a3=22 items=0 ppid=31677 pid=31724 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts3 ses=5 comm="epiphany" exe="/usr/bin/epiphany" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) epiphany-0:2.27.3-1.fc12.x86_64 swfdec-mozilla-0:0.9.2-2.fc11.x86_64 swfdec-0:0.9.2-2.fc11.x86_64 (no proprietary flash plugin installed) Triggered by: epiphany http://www.expe.fr/promotions.html
Thanks for your bug report. Can you please try this with SELinux disabled, and then with SELinux enabled using the updated WebKitGTK+ in rawhide? (1.1.15.1-3.fc12) If these both workaround the error, then it is most likely the same execmem issue as seen in 516057.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle. Changing version to '13'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.