Bug 624301 - SELinux is preventing /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/plugin-container from loading /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so which requires text relocation.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/plugin-container from loa...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 13
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: setroubleshoot_trace_hash:0b451656240...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-15 20:27 UTC by clyde0728
Modified: 2010-08-16 08:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-08-16 08:05:01 UTC
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Description clyde0728 2010-08-15 20:27:16 UTC
Summary:

SELinux is preventing /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/plugin-container from
loading /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so which requires text relocation.

Detailed Description:

The plugin-containe application attempted to load
/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so which requires text relocation. This is
a potential security problem. Most libraries do not need this permission.
Libraries 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. You can configure SELinux temporarily to allow
/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so to use relocation as a workaround, until
the library is fixed. Please file a bug report.

Allowing Access:

If you trust /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so to run correctly, you can
change the file context to textrel_shlib_t. "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
'/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so'" 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 textrel_shlib_t
'/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so'"

Fix Command:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so'

Additional Information:

Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1
                              023
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
Target Objects                /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so [ file ]
Source                        plugin-containe
Source Path                   /home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/plugin-container
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.7.19-44.fc13
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   allow_execmod
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed)
                              2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 23
                              17:27:40 UTC 2010 i686 i686
Alert Count                   2
First Seen                    Sun 15 Aug 2010 03:36:51 PM EDT
Last Seen                     Sun 15 Aug 2010 04:11:25 PM EDT
Local ID                      8acae2e8-d828-41de-9c0b-f212613d6074
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1281903085.229:17361): avc:  denied  { execmod } for  pid=2410 comm="plugin-containe" path="/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/libxul.so" dev=dm-2 ino=131642 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=file

node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1281903085.229:17361): arch=40000003 syscall=125 success=no exit=-13 a0=fb3000 a1=e17000 a2=5 a3=bfb0c180 items=0 ppid=2387 pid=2410 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) ses=1 comm="plugin-containe" exe="/home/clyde/Downloads/firefox/plugin-container" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)



Hash String generated from  allow_execmod,plugin-containe,unconfined_t,user_home_t,file,execmod
audit2allow suggests:

#============= unconfined_t ==============
#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_execmod'

allow unconfined_t user_home_t:file execmod;

Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2010-08-16 08:05:01 UTC
Either use the chcon command mentioned in the alert or turn off the check
altogether.


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