Description of problem:

SELinux is preventing graph.cgi from read access on the file /etc/passwd.

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

If you believe that graph.cgi should be allowed read access on the passwd file 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 graph.cgi /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp


Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:httpd_collectd_script_t:s0
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:passwd_file_t:s0
Target Objects                /etc/passwd [ file ]
Source                        graph.cgi
Source Path                   graph.cgi
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          clio
Source RPM Packages           perl-5.14.3-221.fc17.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           setup-2.8.48-1.fc17.noarch
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.10.0-167.fc17.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     clio
Platform                      Linux clio 3.7.9-101.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 18
                              22:04:06 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   674
First Seen                    2013-02-26 10:03:50 CET
Last Seen                     2013-02-26 10:30:31 CET
Local ID                      ffeec111-0f09-40de-a9a8-231209ffe4fa

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1361871031.989:5701): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=14683 comm="graph.cgi" name="passwd" dev="dm-0" ino=41162085 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_collectd_script_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:passwd_file_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1361871031.989:5701): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=7fb4c515b6ca a1=80000 a2=1b6 a3=238 items=0 ppid=10041 pid=14683 auid=4294967295 uid=48 gid=48 euid=48 suid=48 fsuid=48 egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=graph.cgi exe=/usr/bin/perl subj=system_u:system_r:httpd_collectd_script_t:s0 key=(null)

Hash: graph.cgi,httpd_collectd_script_t,passwd_file_t,file,read

audit2allow

#============= httpd_collectd_script_t ==============
allow httpd_collectd_script_t passwd_file_t:file read;

audit2allow -R

#============= httpd_collectd_script_t ==============
allow httpd_collectd_script_t passwd_file_t:file read;


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

selinux-policy-3.10.0-167.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install collectd, collectd-web.
2. Start collectd.
3. Load http://localhost/collectd/ to see some graphs.
  
Actual results:

Loading http://localhost/collectd/ produces a huge stream of SELinux denials.

Expected results:

No denials.

Additional info:

This is what I see in /var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Tue Feb 26 10:30:18 2013] [error] [client 192.168.178.21] (process:14291): GLib
-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: Permission denied., referer: http://cl
io/collectd/bin/index.cgi?plugin=conntrack&plugin=contextswitch&plugin=cpu&plugi
n=cpufreq&plugin=df&plugin=disk&plugin=interface&plugin=irq&plugin=load&plugin=m
emory&plugin=ntpd&plugin=protocols&plugin=sensors&plugin=swap&plugin=tcpconns&pl
ugin=thermal&plugin=uptime&plugin=users&plugin=vmem&timespan=3600&action=show_se
lection&ok_button=OK

It appears that graph.cgi is (indirectly) calling Perl's getpwuid, which in turn calls the C function getpwuid_r, which is what tries to read /etc/passwd.

When trying to view graphs, I get *hundreds* of duplicates of the denial reported here.