Question is: What app causes it and why setroubleshoot doesn't show the app name? Summary: SELinux is preventing 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 from making the program stack executable. Detailed Description: [SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.] The 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 application attempted to make its stack executable. This is a potential security problem. This should never ever be necessary. Stack memory is not executable on most OSes these days and this will not change. Executable stack memory is one of the biggest security problems. An execstack error might in fact be most likely raised by malicious code. Applications are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to remove this requirement. If 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 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. Allowing Access: Sometimes a library is accidentally marked with the execstack flag, if you find a library with this flag you can clear it with the execstack -c LIBRARY_PATH. Then retry your application. If the app continues to not work, you can turn the flag back on with execstack -s LIBRARY_PATH. Otherwise, if you trust 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 to run correctly, you can change the context of the executable to execmem_exec_t. "chcon -t execmem_exec_t '466F746F6C616220466F746F737665'" You must also change the default file context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel. "semanage fcontext -a -t execmem_exec_t '466F746F6C616220466F746F737665'" Fix Command: chcon -t execmem_exec_t '466F746F6C616220466F746F737665' Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1 023 Target Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1 023 Target Objects None [ process ] Source 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 Source Path 466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.32-46.fc12 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Permissive Plugin Name allow_execstack Host Name (removed) Platform Linux dhcp-lab-172.englab.brq.redhat.com 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:25:57 EST 2009 i686 i686 Alert Count 2 First Seen Fri 27 Nov 2009 09:31:53 PM CET Last Seen Fri 27 Nov 2009 09:32:25 PM CET Local ID a812528f-644b-4953-9fe9-57344df73b6a Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=dhcp-lab-172.englab.brq.redhat.com type=AVC msg=audit(1259353945.372:21179): avc: denied { execstack } for pid=2327 comm=466F746F6C616220466F746F737665 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process Hash String generated from selinux-policy-3.6.32-46.fc12,allow_execstack,466F746F6C616220466F746F737665,unconfined_t,unconfined_t,process,execstack audit2allow suggests: #============= unconfined_t ============== allow unconfined_t self:process execstack;
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533987 ***