Bug 823295 - SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/gpsd from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/gpsd from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gpsd
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Douglas E. Warner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:987db0c8a74debf021e2a8cf9ba...
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-20 16:28 UTC by Michal Ambroz
Modified: 2013-08-01 10:53 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-08-01 10:53:42 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Michal Ambroz 2012-05-20 16:28:14 UTC
libreport version: 2.0.10
executable:     /usr/bin/python2.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64
time:           Sun 20 May 2012 06:27:56 PM CEST

description:
:SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/gpsd from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
:
:*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************
:
:If you believe that gpsd should have the sys_admin capability 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 gpsd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
:# semodule -i mypol.pp
:
:Additional Information:
:Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:gpsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
:Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:gpsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
:Target Objects                 [ capability ]
:Source                        gpsd
:Source Path                   /usr/sbin/gpsd
:Port                          <Unknown>
:Host                          (removed)
:Source RPM Packages           gpsd-3.5-1.fc17.x86_64
:Target RPM Packages           
:Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.10.0-121.fc17.noarch
:Selinux Enabled               True
:Policy Type                   targeted
:Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
:Host Name                     (removed)
:Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP
:                              Mon May 7 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64
:Alert Count                   1
:First Seen                    Sun 20 May 2012 06:08:49 PM CEST
:Last Seen                     Sun 20 May 2012 06:08:49 PM CEST
:Local ID                      2f50ed87-e7ec-48ce-8fda-1d7656045166
:
:Raw Audit Messages
:type=AVC msg=audit(1337530129.209:21548): avc:  denied  { sys_admin } for  pid=7709 comm="gpsd" capability=21  scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:gpsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:gpsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability
:
:
:type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1337530129.209:21548): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EBUSY a0=634710 a1=900 a2=60bda0 a3=40a7f3 items=0 ppid=7676 pid=7709 auid=1000 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=480 comm=gpsd exe=/usr/sbin/gpsd subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:gpsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
:
:Hash: gpsd,gpsd_t,gpsd_t,capability,sys_admin
:
:audit2allowunable to open /sys/fs/selinux/policy:  Permission denied
:
:
:audit2allow -Runable to open /sys/fs/selinux/policy:  Permission denied
:
:

Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2012-05-21 11:15:21 UTC
What were you doing when this happened?


       CAP_SYS_ADMIN
              * Perform a range of system  administration  operations  including:
                quotactl(2), mount(2), umount(2), swapon(2), swapoff(2), sethost‐
                name(2), and setdomainname(2);
              * perform IPC_SET and IPC_RMID operations on arbitrary System V IPC
                objects;
              * perform  operations  on  trusted and security Extended Attributes
                (see attr(5));
              * use lookup_dcookie(2);
              * use ioprio_set(2) to assign  IOPRIO_CLASS_RT  and  (before  Linux
                2.6.25) IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE I/O scheduling classes;
              * forge UID when passing socket credentials;
              * exceed /proc/sys/fs/file-max, the system-wide limit on the number
                of open files, in system calls that open files (e.g.,  accept(2),
                execve(2), open(2), pipe(2));
              * employ CLONE_NEWNS flag with clone(2) and unshare(2);
              * perform KEYCTL_CHOWN and KEYCTL_SETPERM keyctl(2) operations;
              * perform madvise(2) MADV_HWPOISON operation.

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Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-08-01 10:53:50 UTC
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