Bug 974200 - Persistent AVC caused by accounts-daemon trying to access /var/log
Summary: Persistent AVC caused by accounts-daemon trying to access /var/log
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-13 15:57 UTC by Laine Stump
Modified: 2013-06-15 03:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-06-15 03:07:07 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Laine Stump 2013-06-13 15:57:44 UTC
Since I was watching /var/log/messages prior to my lastest yum update and didn't see these messages, I'm pretty sure it's fairly new. The below message in /var/log/messages is repeated about once every 5 seconds "forever", so it's kind of annoying.



Jun 13 11:49:21 vhost-16 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c


root@vhost-16 /home/laine>sealert -l 9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c
SELinux is preventing accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log.

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

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


Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log [ dir ]
Source                        accounts-daemon
Source Path                   accounts-daemon
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          vhost-16.laine.org
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-3.2-10.fc19.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-48.fc19.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     vhost-16.laine.org
Platform                      Linux vhost-16.laine.org 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Jun 11 19:39:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   92
First Seen                    2013-06-13 11:43:28 EDT
Last Seen                     2013-06-13 11:49:36 EDT
Local ID                      9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1371138576.672:506): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=542 comm="accounts-daemon" name="log" dev="dm-0" ino=18350117 scontext=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
Jun 13 11:49:21 vhost-16 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c
^C
root@vhost-16 /home/laine>ps -AlF | grep accounts-daemon
4 S root       542     1  0  80   0 - 91591 poll_s  3368   0 11:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
0 S root      2809  2631  0  80   0 - 28162 pipe_w   880   3 11:49 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto accounts-daemon
root@vhost-16 /home/laine>sealert -l 9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c
SELinux is preventing accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log.

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

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


Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log [ dir ]
Source                        accounts-daemon
Source Path                   accounts-daemon
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          vhost-16.laine.org
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-3.2-10.fc19.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-48.fc19.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     vhost-16.laine.org
Platform                      Linux vhost-16.laine.org 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Jun 11 19:39:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   92
First Seen                    2013-06-13 11:43:28 EDT
Last Seen                     2013-06-13 11:49:36 EDT
Local ID                      9136c1d3-62c2-4567-9d4f-80f28866858c

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1371138576.672:506): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=542 comm="accounts-daemon" name="log" dev="dm-0" ino=18350117 scontext=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir


Hash: accounts-daemon,accountsd_t,var_log_t,dir,read

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2013-06-14 05:04:19 UTC
same here.  I'm seeing one entry added to /var/log/messages every 4 seconds and 10% cpu load servicing the fallout from this selinux denial.  

2013-06-13T21:59:04.071296-07:00 arbol setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 14b2e316-045a-4ee4-a2b9-8defd3d61f01
2013-06-13T21:59:08.076532-07:00 arbol setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 14b2e316-045a-4ee4-a2b9-8defd3d61f01
2013-06-13T21:59:12.076820-07:00 arbol setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 14b2e316-045a-4ee4-a2b9-8defd3d61f01
2013-06-13T21:59:16.064170-07:00 arbol setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 14b2e316-045a-4ee4-a2b9-8defd3d61f01

SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon from read access on the directory /var/log.

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

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

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log [ dir ]
Source                        accounts-daemon
Source Path                   /usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          arbol.wsrcc.com
Source RPM Packages           accountsservice-0.6.34-1.fc19.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-3.2-10.fc19.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-48.fc19.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     arbol.wsrcc.com
Platform                      Linux arbol.wsrcc.com 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              Tue Jun 11 19:39:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   44
First Seen                    2013-06-13 22:00:47 PDT
Last Seen                     2013-06-13 22:03:39 PDT
Local ID                      7a43b499-3378-441a-aa12-fac74b372b87

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1371186219.313:6320): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=480 comm="accounts-daemon" name="log" dev="sda3" ino=1445955 scontext=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1371186219.313:6320): arch=x86_64 syscall=inotify_add_watch success=no exit=EACCES a0=7 a1=7f0638b94d10 a2=1002fce a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=480 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=accounts-daemon exe=/usr/libexec/accounts-daemon subj=system_u:system_r:accountsd_t:s0 key=(null)

Hash: accounts-daemon,accountsd_t,var_log_t,dir,read

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2013-06-14 05:17:25 UTC
Has been added.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-06-14 07:24:11 UTC
selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19

Comment 4 Aaron Sowry 2013-06-14 09:16:59 UTC
Dupe of bug #973849 I guess

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-06-15 03:07:07 UTC
selinux-policy-3.12.1-52.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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