Bug 858738 - SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/smbd from 'search' accesses on the directory /usr/share/man.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/smbd from 'search' accesses on the directory ...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: samba
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Guenther Deschner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:cfb98a8d7cf3de4db679095a5dc...
: 858740 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-19 14:37 UTC by Raman Gupta
Modified: 2013-02-07 13:17 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-07 13:17:40 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Raman Gupta 2012-09-19 14:37:57 UTC
libreport version: 2.0.10
executable:     /usr/bin/python2.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64
time:           Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:37:31 AM EDT

description:
:SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/smbd from 'search' accesses on the directory /usr/share/man.
:
:*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************
:
:If you believe that smbd should be allowed search access on the man directory 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 smbd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
:# semodule -i mypol.pp
:
:Additional Information:
:Source Context                system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0
:Target Context                system_u:object_r:man_t:s0
:Target Objects                /usr/share/man [ dir ]
:Source                        smbd
:Source Path                   /usr/sbin/smbd
:Port                          <Unknown>
:Host                          (removed)
:Source RPM Packages           samba-3.6.6-88.fc16.x86_64
:Target RPM Packages           filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc16.x86_64
:Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.10.0-91.fc16.noarch
:Selinux Enabled               True
:Policy Type                   targeted
:Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
:Host Name                     (removed)
:Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23
:                              17:51:29 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64
:Alert Count                   3
:First Seen                    Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:36:10 AM EDT
:Last Seen                     Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:36:10 AM EDT
:Local ID                      ee795496-ef07-4ef1-8d89-f1a6fd6537da
:
:Raw Audit Messages
:type=AVC msg=audit(1348065370.650:5620): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=17328 comm="smbd" name="man" dev="dm-0" ino=1060 scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:man_t:s0 tclass=dir
:
:
:type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1348065370.650:5620): arch=x86_64 syscall=stat success=no exit=EACCES a0=7f03a57a50e0 a1=7fff94aa9420 a2=7fff94aa9420 a3=74 items=0 ppid=1625 pid=17328 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=1000 suid=1000 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=smbd exe=/usr/sbin/smbd subj=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 key=(null)
:
:Hash: smbd,smbd_t,man_t,dir,search
:
:audit2allow
:
:#============= smbd_t ==============
:#!!!! This avc can be allowed using one of the these booleans:
:#     samba_export_all_ro, samba_export_all_rw
:
:allow smbd_t man_t:dir search;
:
:audit2allow -R
:
:#============= smbd_t ==============
:#!!!! This avc can be allowed using one of the these booleans:
:#     samba_export_all_ro, samba_export_all_rw
:
:allow smbd_t man_t:dir search;
:

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2012-09-20 00:00:30 UTC
*** Bug 858740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2012-09-20 00:01:31 UTC
:#============= smbd_t ==============
:#!!!! This avc can be allowed using one of the these booleans:
:#     samba_export_all_ro, samba_export_all_rw

Comment 3 Raman Gupta 2012-09-20 01:42:51 UTC
Daniel,

The smb.conf comments state:

# Use the samba_export_all_ro or samba_export_all_rw Boolean to share system
# directories...

Maybe this is a bug in smbd, but I do not have /usr/share/man or /usr/bin/ exported via samba. So as I understand it, I shouldn't have to set samba_export_all_ro and samba_export_all_rw.

My smb.conf exports are:

[homes]  (standard)
[printers]  (standard)
[vartmp]  (local share of /var/tmp)

So for some reason the smbd is trying to access /usr/share/man and /usr/bin/wodim  (bug 858740) and /usr/sbin/ssmtp (bug 858739).

By the way, this seems to be new -- I haven't seen this before today.

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2012-09-20 01:45:07 UTC
Well lets assign this to samba and see if they have any idea?

Comment 5 Raman Gupta 2012-09-20 01:54:23 UTC
For reference, here is my smb.conf: http://pastebin.com/6m1UHdcm

Comment 6 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-21 09:33:12 UTC
Are you sure this is really smbd. We don't call wodim nor ssmtp. I also don't find any reference in the code that we would scan the man directory.

Why does the report state:

executable:     /usr/bin/python2.7

???

Comment 7 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-21 09:59:06 UTC
Can we get samba log files of that time?

Comment 8 Raman Gupta 2012-09-21 12:10:59 UTC
I believe python 2.7 is the executable of the selinux libreport tool, not the process doing the access. The rest of the report shows clearly smbd as the process in question. I guess it could be some sort of bug in the selinux auditing code.

I don't see anything in the samba log files at Sep 19th, you can see the last time the Samba logs were written was:

[root@edison ~]# ls -al /var/log/samba/
total 24
drwx------.  4 root root 4096 Jun 26 10:25 .
drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Sep 21 03:43 ..
drwx------.  4 root root 4096 May 31 02:13 cores
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root    0 May 31 02:25 log.192.168.1.3
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root    0 Jun  5 03:25 log.newton
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  708 Sep 17 13:14 log.nmbd
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  257 Sep 17 13:14 log.smbd
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 Sep 16 03:30 old
 
However, the PID given in the Selinux alert denial (pid=17328) is still valid as of now:

[root@edison ~]# ps -ef | grep smb | grep -v grep
root      1625     1  0 Sep17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd
root      1679  1625  0 Sep17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd
root     17328  1625  0 Sep18 ?        00:00:02 /usr/sbin/smbd

For reference here are the complete audit logs referencing smbd (grep smbd /var/log/audit/audit.log.1):

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=jcGYj3Bp

Comment 10 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-21 12:25:23 UTC
Who is the user with the uid 1000.

Comment 11 Raman Gupta 2012-09-21 12:29:54 UTC
That is my normal user account:

[root@edison ~]# grep 1000 /etc/passwd
raman:x:1000:1000:Raman Gupta:/home/raman:/bin/bash

Comment 12 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-21 15:25:01 UTC
Cause this user tried to access the directory and tried to execute the binaries.

Comment 13 Raman Gupta 2012-09-21 17:02:50 UTC
How can that be if smbd does not share that directory? You can see the shares I have exposed in my smbd.conf.

Comment 14 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-24 10:37:48 UTC
Which samba version are you running?

Comment 15 Andreas Schneider 2012-09-24 10:40:14 UTC
rpm -qi samba

Comment 16 Raman Gupta 2012-09-24 14:06:50 UTC
[root@edison ~]# rpm -qi samba
Name        : samba                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Epoch       : 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Version     : 3.6.6                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Release     : 88.fc16                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Architecture: x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Install Date: Thu 05 Jul 2012 11:49:45 PM EDT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Group       : System Environment/Daemons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Size        : 18505343                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
License     : GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Tue 26 Jun 2012 12:54:03 PM EDT, Key ID 067f00b6a82ba4b7                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Source RPM  : samba-3.6.6-88.fc16.src.rpm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Build Date  : Tue 26 Jun 2012 10:26:10 AM EDT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Build Host  : x86-14.phx2.fedoraproject.org                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Relocations : (not relocatable)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Packager    : Fedora Project                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Vendor      : Fedora Project                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
URL         : http://www.samba.org/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Summary     : Server and Client software to interoperate with Windows machines                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Description :                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of PC-related machines                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
share files, printers, and other information (such as lists of                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
available files and printers). The Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux
operating systems support this natively, and add-on packages can
enable the same thing for DOS, Windows, VMS, UNIX of all kinds, MVS,
and more. This package provides an SMB/CIFS server that can be used to
provide network services to SMB/CIFS clients.
Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT
need the NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol.

Comment 17 Raman Gupta 2012-09-24 14:07:41 UTC
[root@edison ~]# rpm -V samba
[root@edison ~]#

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Comment 19 Andreas Schneider 2013-02-07 13:17:40 UTC
We are unable to reproduce the reported issue. If you can reproduce it with the latest version and give detailed information how to reproduce it, we're happy to fix it.


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