Bug 713899 - SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix from 'use' accesses on the fd /dev/null.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix from 'use' accesses on the f...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: setroubleshoot_trace_hash:8c857b2219d...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-16 18:07 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2011-07-09 12:11 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-06-17 19:04:39 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2011-06-16 18:07:27 UTC
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix from 'use' accesses on the fd /dev/null.

*****  Plugin catchall_boolean (80.5 confidence) suggests  *******************

If you want to allow all domains to use other domains file descriptors
Then you must tell SELinux about this by enabling the 'allow_domain_fd_use' boolean.
Do
setsebool -P allow_domain_fd_use 1

*****  Plugin leaks (10.5 confidence) suggests  ******************************

If you want to ignore sendmail.postfix trying to use access the null fd, because you believe it should not need this access.
Then you should report this as a bug.  
You can generate a local policy module to dontaudit this access.
Do
# grep /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -D -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

*****  Plugin catchall (10.5 confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that sendmail.postfix should be allowed use access on the null fd by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep sendmail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:system_r:init_t:s0
Target Objects                /dev/null [ fd ]
Source                        sendmail
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
Port                          <Inconnu>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           postfix-2.8.3-1.fc16
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.9.16-28.fc16
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Permissive
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.0-0.rc3.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Jun 14 17:13:27 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    mer. 15 juin 2011 22:15:04 CEST
Last Seen                     mer. 15 juin 2011 22:15:04 CEST
Local ID                      bb2905da-4a6a-44bb-ba89-44a16b02fcdf

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1308168904.535:308): avc:  denied  { use } for  pid=6459 comm="sendmail" path="/dev/null" dev=devtmpfs ino=5052 scontext=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=fd


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1308168904.535:308): arch=x86_64 syscall=execve success=yes exit=0 a0=7fff1e1dce60 a1=7fff1e1d9c60 a2=7fff1e21d560 a3=0 items=0 ppid=6434 pid=6459 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=12 comm=sendmail exe=/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix subj=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: sendmail,system_mail_t,init_t,fd,use

audit2allow

#============= system_mail_t ==============
#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_domain_fd_use'

allow system_mail_t init_t:fd use;

audit2allow -R

#============= system_mail_t ==============
#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'allow_domain_fd_use'

allow system_mail_t init_t:fd use;

Another strange AVC

Comment 1 Dominick Grift 2011-06-16 20:27:37 UTC
This is another one of those "fd use" access vectors that we may be able to silently deny. Noticed any loss of functionality. ( i guess it is hard to tell since you encountered other similar avc denials some of which were indeed valid )

I have a feeling though that this one can be ignored.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-17 18:57:07 UTC
This looks like stdin/stdout or stderr was opened to /dev/null and passed to a domain that eventually gets to system_mail_t.

Is there any way the kernel could tell us the number of the fd that is being used?  IE We probably want to look more closely at FD's being passed that are > 2

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-17 19:04:39 UTC
I will add init_dontaudit_use_fds to all calls to term_dontaudit_use_* 

Which will cover this case.  Since these terms are being opened by init_t and passed down, this makes sense to me.

Fixed in selinux-policy-3.9.16-30.fc16


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