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Bug 822480

Summary:	move /var/lib/net-snmp from net-snmp to net-snmp-libs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Component:	net-snmp	Assignee:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	dapospis, john.horne, lmiksik, mmalik, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	net-snmp-5.5-41.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Net-SNMP daemons and utilites use /var/lib/net-snmp directory to store persistent data, e.g. cache of parsed MIB files. This directory is created by net-snmp package and when this package is not installed, Net-SNMP utilities and libraries create the directory with wrong SELinux context, which results in AVC reported by SELinux. In this update, the /var/lib/net-snmp directory is created by net-snmp-lib package, therefore all Net-SNMP utilities and libraries don't need to create the directory and the directory will have correct SELinux context.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	822508 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-06-20 07:21:29 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description Karel Srot 2012-05-17 13:20:50 UTC

Description of problem:

Needed because of bug 814091.

/var/lib/net-snmp directory should belong to net-snmp-libs
because of other applications that requires libs but don't need net-snmp itself.

net-snmp-5.5-37.el6

# rpm -ql net-snmp | grep /var/lib/net-snmp
/var/lib/net-snmp

Comment 3 Jan Safranek 2012-05-18 10:17:40 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Net-SNMP daemons and utilites use /var/lib/net-snmp directory to store persistent data, e.g. cache of parsed MIB files. This directory is created by net-snmp package and when this package is not installed, Net-SNMP utilities and libraries create the directory with wrong SELinux context, which results in AVC reported by SELinux. In this update, the /var/lib/net-snmp directory is created by net-snmp-lib package, therefore all Net-SNMP utilities and libraries don't need to create the directory and the directory will have correct SELinux context.

Comment 7 Miroslav Grepl 2012-05-31 13:22:16 UTC

*** Bug 827009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 07:21:29 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0876.html