Bug 987101 - SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/fprintd from 'execute' accesses on the file /usr/bin/netstat.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/fprintd from 'execute' accesses on the fil...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nss
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elio Maldonado Batiz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: abrt_hash:8f2e7a7bffd040fb30e280de8d5...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-22 17:44 UTC by Rafal Boruc
Modified: 2015-02-17 16:18 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 16:18:25 UTC
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Description Rafal Boruc 2013-07-22 17:44:19 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/fprintd from 'execute' accesses on the file /usr/bin/netstat.

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

If aby fprintd powinno mieć domyślnie execute dostęp do netstat file.
Then proszę to zgłosić jako błąd.
Można utworzyć lokalny moduł polityki, aby umożliwić ten dostęp.
Do
można tymczasowo zezwolić na ten dostęp wykonując polecenia:
# grep fprintd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mojapolityka
# semodule -i mojapolityka.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0
Target Objects                /usr/bin/netstat [ file ]
Source                        fprintd
Source Path                   /usr/libexec/fprintd
Port                          <Nieznane>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           fprintd-0.5.0-1.fc19.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           net-tools-2.0-0.6.20130109git.fc19.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-44.fc19.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.9.2-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon
                              May 13 12:36:24 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   18
First Seen                    2013-07-03 19:00:29 BST
Last Seen                     2013-07-22 18:37:01 BST
Local ID                      449f3cae-2f3a-4706-912f-e80ab5c349d6

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1374514621.990:1106): avc:  denied  { execute } for  pid=14435 comm="fprintd" name="netstat" dev="dm-0" ino=1195233 scontext=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1374514621.990:1106): arch=x86_64 syscall=execve success=no exit=EACCES a0=7fff146a3233 a1=7fff146a3300 a2=1254c80 a3=3acfe87ea0 items=0 ppid=14423 pid=14435 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=fprintd exe=/usr/libexec/fprintd subj=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0 key=(null)

Hash: fprintd,fprintd_t,bin_t,file,execute

audit2allow

#============= fprintd_t ==============
allow fprintd_t bin_t:file execute;

audit2allow -RYou must regenerate interface info by running /usr/bin/sepolgen-ifgen


Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.1.4
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         3.9.2-301.fc19.x86_64
type:           libreport

Potential duplicate: bug 918141

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2013-07-22 19:20:56 UTC
This smells like an libnss problem where it used to exec netstat to generate randomness?

Comment 2 Bob Relyea 2013-07-22 22:11:28 UTC
Elio, we shouldn't be using netstat anymore. Please make sure that's the case in fedora (maybe an update turned it's use back on?). This would be softoken if it's happening in NSS.

bob

Comment 3 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2013-08-12 19:12:01 UTC
Bob, NSS still contains the code to run netstat.

However, it will be used in a fallback scenario - only if NO (zero) entropy bytes could be obtained using other strategies.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/nss/source/lib/freebl/unix_rand.c?mark=816,912-920,946-947#912

Comment 4 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2013-08-12 19:28:22 UTC
While function RNG_SystemInfoForRNG does a lot, only one line is responsible for the decision to skip or use netstat:
    bytes = RNG_FileUpdate("/dev/urandom", SYSTEM_RNG_SEED_COUNT);

If /dev/urandom were unaccessible (can't stat or can't read from), it would result in a zero result and netstat being used.

Is that scenario possible?

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2013-08-13 21:39:48 UTC
THat is probably it.  fprintd attempted to read /dev/urandom and SELinux blocked it.

Rafal were you using ldap for your users?

Comment 6 Bob Relyea 2013-08-15 18:14:23 UTC
> That is probably it.  fprintd attempted to read /dev/urandom and 
> SELinux blocked it.

Oh we need to be very careful about blocking /dev/urandom. If NSS didn't have any fallback, you would wind up with no entropy in your keys.

bob

Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2013-08-17 11:12:02 UTC
So should I just give every domain the ability to read it?  Could a bad one drain all of the entropy?

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