Summary:

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail access to a leaked
unix_stream_socket file descriptor.

Detailed Description:

[sendmail has a permissive type (system_mail_t). This access was not denied.]

SELinux denied access requested by the sendmail command. It looks like this is
either a leaked descriptor or sendmail output was redirected to a file it is not
allowed to access. Leaks usually can be ignored since SELinux is just closing
the leak and reporting the error. The application does not use the descriptor,
so it will run properly. If this is a redirection, you will not get output in
the unix_stream_socket. You should generate a bugzilla on selinux-policy, and it
will get routed to the appropriate package. You can safely ignore this avc.

Allowing Access:

You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385)

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:system_r:fail2ban_t:s0
Target Objects                unix_stream_socket [ unix_stream_socket ]
Source                        sendmail
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           sendmail-8.14.3-8.fc12
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   leaks
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed)
                              2.6.31.12-174.2.3_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc12.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Jan 26 16:55:45 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   2
First Seen                    Fri 29 Jan 2010 05:25:11 PM EST
Last Seen                     Fri 29 Jan 2010 05:25:11 PM EST
Local ID                      1b0c0ec0-40d3-49ad-a01b-cd654f3a520e
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1264803911.849:7): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=1332 comm="sendmail" path="socket:[11848]" dev=sockfs ino=11848 scontext=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:fail2ban_t:s0 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1264803911.849:7): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=1332 comm="sendmail" path="socket:[11856]" dev=sockfs ino=11856 scontext=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:fail2ban_t:s0 tclass=unix_dgram_socket

node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1264803911.849:7): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=12f7510 a1=12f7a00 a2=12f7810 a3=28 items=0 ppid=1329 pid=1332 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=489 sgid=489 fsgid=489 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="sendmail" exe="/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" subj=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0 key=(null)



Hash String generated from  selinux-policy-3.6.32-73.fc12,leaks,sendmail,system_mail_t,fail2ban_t,unix_stream_socket,read,write
audit2allow suggests:

#============= system_mail_t ==============
allow system_mail_t fail2ban_t:unix_dgram_socket { read write };
allow system_mail_t fail2ban_t:unix_stream_socket { read write };