Description of problem: I use privoxy as my web proxy for all web browsing. The SELinux policy for privoxy frequently (like, once a week or more) prevents me from accessing various legitimate sites that I want to visit. The reason: because the sites use a URL with a port other than port 80. In other words, they are of the form http://domain.example.com:NNN/... for some numeric value NNN. Suggestion: Revise the privoxy security policy to allow network access to all TCP ports on remote hosts.
Turn on the privoxy_connect_any boolean setsebool -P privoxy_connect_any 1 I guess we can turn this on by default.
Yes, this fixes it for me: setsebool -P privoxy_connect_any 1 Yes, this should go into the default policy. I've re-opened this bug to indicate that it's a defect in the default policy and the ticket shouldn't be closed until the default policy is fixed to add this to the default; I hope that's OK.
I have changed it to the default in F13. Miroslav could you add the line # Allow privoxy to connect to all ports, not justHTTP, FTP, and Gopher ports. # privoxy_connect_any = true To booleans-targeted.conf This will only change it on Fresh Installs. We never change boolean settings on updates.
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.6.32-71.fc12
selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12
selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update selinux-policy'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0858
selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.