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Bug 784144

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix from using the execstack access on a process
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Trevor Meyer <meyer>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: dwalsh
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2012-01-24 15:41:28 UTC Type: ---
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Description Trevor Meyer 2012-01-23 23:23:51 UTC
Description of problem:

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix from using the execstack access on a process.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that sendmail.postfix should be allowed execstack access on processes labeled sendmail_t 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:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Objects                Unknown [ process ]
Source                        sendmail
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          e.hblm.info
Source RPM Packages           postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.7.19-126.el6_2.4
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Permissive
Host Name                     e.hblm.info
Platform                      Linux e.hblm.info 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
                             Fri Dec 23 02:21:33 CST 2011 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    Mon Jan 23 18:10:15 2012
Last Seen                     Mon Jan 23 18:10:15 2012
Local ID                      bf912dce-0ef1-4537-8a7f-33eeb46f33aa

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1327360215.998:43735): avc:  denied  { execstack } for  pid=12021 comm="sendmail" scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process


type=AVC msg=audit(1327360215.998:43735): avc:  denied  { execmem } for  pid=12021 comm="sendmail" scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1327360215.998:43735): arch=x86_64 syscall=mprotect success=yes exit=0 a0=7fffacc0a000 a1=1000 a2=1000007 a3=7fbe77561000 items=0 ppid=1 pid=12021 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=sendmail exe=/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix subj=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: sendmail,sendmail_t,sendmail_t,process,execstack

audit2allow

#============= sendmail_t ==============
allow sendmail_t self:process { execstack execmem };

audit2allow -R

#============= sendmail_t ==============
allow sendmail_t self:process { execstack execmem };

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libselinux.x86_64                         2.0.94-5.2.el6                @base
libselinux-python.x86_64                  2.0.94-5.2.el6                @base
libselinux-utils.x86_64                   2.0.94-5.2.el6                @base
selinux-policy.noarch                     3.7.19-126.el6_2.4            @updates
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch            3.7.19-126.el6_2.4            @updates


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum update
2. shutdown -r now
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:

Before the package update, SELinux had not conflicts with Postfix.

Additional info:

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2012-01-24 15:41:28 UTC
This is a bad access.  Most likely you have a bad library or accidently marked with the execstack flag.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652297 ***

Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2012-01-26 14:46:35 UTC
I tried, but I was not able to reproduce (I tried both RHEL-6.1 and latest nightly).

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2012-01-26 22:25:18 UTC
So you can not get this to happen again?  Maybe we can just close this as a hickup and reopen if it happens again.